CVE•Published 2026-09-03•Modified 2026-09-09•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-85391
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
28
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 72% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Peppermint through 0.5.5 contains a hardcoded JWT signing secret in docker-compose.yml that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge session tokens for any account. Attackers can use the published secret to mint valid tokens for arbitrary user IDs and access protected endpoints without credentials.
Timeline
Published 2026-09-03
Modified 2026-09-09
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-85391Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-85391Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-85391Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-85391GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-85391" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-85391 on GitHub.