Is CVE-2026-120442 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-120442?

CVE-2026-120442 has a CVSS v3 severity of CRITICAL (9.8).

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CVE-2026-120442

Description

ape-volo-admin before 3.6.1 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge administrator tokens using a hardcoded JWT signing key in appsettings.json. Attackers can sign tokens offline with the jti claim set to the seeded administrator id to gain full API control over users, roles, permissions and data.