๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-45631

CRITICAL 10.0

Dokploy: Pre-Auth Admin Takeover via Hardcoded Authentication Secret

CVSS Score
10.0
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

Dokploy is a free, self-hostable Platform as a Service (PaaS). From 0.27.0 to before 0.29.3, a hardcoded BETTER_AUTH_SECRET fallback ("better-auth-secret-123456789") lets an unauthenticated attacker forge email verification JWTs, trigger auto-sign-in as admin, and execute commands on the host via the built-in SSH terminal. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.29.3.

CWE CWE-798
Vendor dokploy
Product dokploy
Published May 29, 2026
Last Updated Jun 1, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

Dokploy / dokploy
>= 0.27.0, < 0.29.3

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/security/advisories/GHSA-w3gm-rc4p-9rhj github.com: https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/pull/4374