Rote through 2.6.0 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated admins to obtain superadmin rights by reading or…
CVE-2026-126803
Rote through 2.6.0 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated admins to obtain superadmin rights by reading or overwriting JWT signing secrets via /v2/api/admin/settings. Attackers can retrieve the unmasked jwtSecret from the security settings group and forge HS256 tokens for the super administrator to change user roles and escalate their own account.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.6 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 11 November 2026
- Last updated
- 12 November 2026
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/Rabithua/Rote/pull/420
- https://github.com/Rabithua/Rote/commit/865d69fceb9c1f1a0d30923fae7cef072a38b22b
- https://github.com/Rabithua/Rote/blob/v2.6.0/server/route/v2/admin.ts#L86-L146
- https://vul.yulun.ac.cn/20261104/rote/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rote-through-2.6.0-privilege-escalation-via-admin-settings-api-jwt-secret-exposure
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