Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as organization admin
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DeliveryCall /api/get-certs or /api/get-cert
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ExploitRetrieve unmasked signing private key
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ExecutionForge JWT as global administrator
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ImpactFull cross-organization compromise
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated organization-administrator account on the target Casdoor instance (PR:L) - it is not reachable by anonymous/unauthenticated users. Given that role, the flaw affects default configurations: the /api/get-certs and /api/get-cert endpoints return the instance-wide built-in certificate's private key without masking, so no special feature toggle is needed. The critical limiting factor is the org-admin privilege requirement; the critical amplifying factor is that this is a single shared signing key for the whole instance, so any one org admin can forge tokens for users in any organization, including global administrators (cross-tenant scope change). Risk is highest in multi-tenant deployments where organization-admin accounts are self-service or not fully trusted. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely high-severity issue, though not one of the widest-blast-radius CVEs. The signals are internally consistent: CVSS 4.0 base 9.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N with a scope change SC:H/SI:H) aligns with SSVC (Exploitation: poc, Automatable: yes, Technical Impact: total) and with a publicly available exploit write-up. The one apparent tension is EPSS, which is very low at 0.21% (11th percentile) despite a public PoC and 'total' technical impact - this reflects that exploitation is not remote-unauthenticated (an attacker must already hold organization-administrator privileges) rather than any weakness in the technical impact. There is no CISA KEV listing, so this is 'publicly available exploit code exists,' NOT confirmed active exploitation. The core weakness (CWE-863 incorrect authorization exposing the instance-wide JWT signing private key) is severe because it collapses tenant isolation entirely: a low-trust org admin can escalate to forging tokens as a global administrator across all organizations. Net: a real priority for any multi-tenant Casdoor deployment where organization-admin accounts are not fully trusted, but the PR:L prerequisite meaningfully limits opportunistic mass exploitation, consistent with the low EPSS. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who controls (or registers/compromises) an organization-administrator account in a shared Casdoor instance calls /api/get-certs or /api/get-cert and receives the unmasked built-in certificate private key. They use that key to sign forged JWTs impersonating any user - including a global administrator - gaining full cross-organization control. A public exploit write-up detailing this exact technique is available (VulnCheck advisory / geo-chen OSS finding-3). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 16, 2026
Casdoor through 4.4.0 exposes its instance-wide built-in JWT signing private key unmasked through the /api/get-certs and /api/get-cert endpoints, letting an authenticated organization administrator retrieve a key that should never leave the server. Because a single shared key signs tokens for the entire deployment, any one org admin can forge valid JWTs for arbitrary users in any organization - including global administrators - turning a tenant-scoped role into a full cross-tenant authentication bypass (CWE-863, improper authorization). Publicly available exploit code exists (a detailed write-up for finding 3 is linked, described as an incomplete fix of issue #3003), and VulnCheck rates the technical impact as total; EPSS is low at 0.21% (11th percentile), and the flaw is not confirmed as actively exploited. Exploitation requires a prior authenticated org-admin account and is not reachable anonymously.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis - the public write-up characterizes the current state as an incomplete fix of issue #3003, and no fixed Casdoor version is given in the available data, so this should be tracked against the upstream repository at https://github.com/casdoor/casdoor for a release that masks the private key on /api/get-certs and /api/get-cert for organization-scoped callers. The most important compensating control is to rotate the built-in signing certificate immediately (generate a new built-in key pair in the Casdoor certificate settings and remove the old one), since the previously exposed key stays valid for token forgery until rotated; the trade-off is that every JWT signed with the old key is invalidated, forcing all users and any relying services or JWKS consumers to refresh, so schedule the rotation and re-login window. In addition, treat every organization-administrator account as equivalent to a global administrator for trust purposes until patched: audit existing org-admin assignments, revoke or downgrade them where not strictly necessary, and disable self-service creation of organization admins. Where operationally feasible, block or restrict access to /api/get-certs and /api/get-cert at a reverse proxy or API gateway so that only known global-admin source addresses or sessions can reach them - noting this may break legitimate administrative tooling that depends on certificate introspection - and enable logging/alerting on requests to those endpoints to detect key harvesting. Finally, hunt for indicators of forged-token abuse, including authentication events tied to admin or cross-organization identities that do not correspond to legitimate logins, and invalidate sessions for high-privilege accounts as part of the cleanup.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Casdoor is an open-source Go-based identity and access management (IAM) / SSO platform that issues JWTs signed with an instance-wide built-in certificate. The vulnerability class is CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization): the certificate controller and object layer - visible in controllers/cert.go and object/cert.go at the v4.4.0 tag - return the certificate object through /api/get-certs and /api/get-cert without masking the private key field for non-privileged callers. The authorization check appears to validate that the caller is an administrator but fails to distinguish an organization-scoped administrator from a global administrator, so an org admin receives the global built-in cert's private key. Since that one key pair validates tokens across every organization in the instance, possession of it provides the ability to mint signed JWTs that any Casdoor-protected service will accept, effectively bypassing authentication and impersonating users - including global admins - in other tenants. This is described in the source material as an incomplete fix of the earlier issue #3003, meaning a prior attempt to restrict the cert endpoints did not fully close the private-key disclosure path. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:casdoor:casdoor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* applies broadly, and ENISA EUVD (EUVD-2026-77710) records affected versions as casdoor 0 through 4.4.0.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
Org admin is an authenticated but limited role (PR:L); exposing the instance-wide signing key enables cross-organization token forgery, a genuine scope change (S:C) with high C and I, no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
DescriptionCVE.org
Casdoor through 4.4.0 fails to properly mask the instance-wide built-in certificate private key in /api/get-certs and /api/get-cert endpoints, allowing organization administrators to retrieve it. Attackers can use the exposed private key to forge JWT tokens for any user in any organization, including global administrators.
Technical POC Analysis
CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization).
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Latest POC
1 PoC candidate from github (unverified)
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Executive ViewAI
Casdoor deployments through 4.4.0 expose an instance-wide JWT signing key that an organization administrator can retrieve, enabling forged tokens for arbitrary users in any tenant, including global administrators. Publicly available exploit code exists, and while the vulnerability is not confirmed as actively exploited, successful abuse would break tenant isolation and authentication across the entire Casdoor deployment. Leadership should treat this as a severe access-control and trust risk because a single organization-admin account could compromise all organizations and administrative identities.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Restrict access to /api/get-certs and /api/get-cert to trusted administrative networks only; block these endpoints at reverse proxies, WAFs, or API gateways; reduce and monitor organization-administrator privileges; rotate the JWT signing key where operationally supported; enable audit logging and alerting for certificate retrieval and anomalous JWT issuance; segment Casdoor management interfaces from untrusted networks; monitor vendor advisories for a fixed release beyond 4.4.0.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Cross-organization user administration takeover in Casdoor through 4.4.0 allows any holder of a single application's cli
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Casdoor is a UI-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Single-Sign-On (SSO) platform. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.
Casdoor before v1.126.1 was discovered to contain an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability via the uploadFile function.
Casdoor v1.331.0 and below was discovered to contain a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the endpoint /api/set-passwo
Casdoor is a UI-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Single-Sign-On (SSO) platform. Rated medium severity (CVSS
Cross-tenant privilege escalation in Casdoor allows a non-global organization admin in one tenant to delete, create, or
Path traversal in Casdoor's Local File System storage provider allows authenticated administrators to write arbitrary fi
Token revocation bypass in Casdoor identity management platform (versions 2.362.0 and earlier) allows remote unauthentic
Cross-organization token exchange in Casdoor versions 2.362.0 and earlier allows remote unauthenticated attackers to esc
SAML authentication bypass in Casdoor 2.362.0 and earlier allows remote unauthenticated attackers to authenticate as arb
Unauthenticated arbitrary file upload in Casdoor's /api/upload-resource endpoint (controllers/resource.go) exposes all v
EUVD-2026-77710
GHSA-q7wf-9cg6-97h6
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
Exploit-DB