CVE-2025-14261 (GCVE-0-2025-14261)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-08 18:12
Modified
2025-12-08 18:20
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
The Litmus platform uses JWT for authentication and authorization, but the secret being used for signing the JWT is only 6 bytes long at its core, which makes it extremely easy to crack.
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Impacted products
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Litmuschaos litmus Version: 0   < 3.23.0
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