CVE•Published 2026-08-23•Modified 2026-08-27•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-78062

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CVSS v3.1

7.3

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 79% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-259Use of Hard-coded Password CWE-798Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Description

A vulnerability was identified in vas3k TaxHacker up to 0.8.2. The affected element is the function envSchema.parse of the file lib/config.ts of the component JWT Secret Handler. The manipulation of the argument BETTER_AUTH_SECRET leads to hard-coded credentials. The attack can be initiated remotely. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Timeline

Published 2026-08-23

Modified 2026-08-27

External references

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