SigNoz before 0.143.0 Authentication Bypass via Empty JWT Secret
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
SigNoz from v0.8.0 before v0.143.0 defaults the JWT tokenizer signing secret (tokenizer::jwt::secret, set via SIGNOZ_TOKENIZER_JWT_SECRET or the deprecated SIGNOZ_JWT_SECRET) to an empty string, and Config.Validate() does not reject the empty value, so a deployment that does not configure a secret starts up and both signs and verifies session tokens with an empty HMAC key. Because the JWT tokenizer was the default provider, any such deployment is affected. An unauthenticated attacker who knows the ID of an existing user can forge a valid session token for that user — including an administrator — by signing the id, orgId and email claims with an empty key; the organization ID (and whether an email is registered) can be obtained without authentication from /api/v2/sessions/context. A forged refresh token can be exchanged at /api/v2/sessions/rotate for a new token pair and cannot be revoked, so it remains usable for its full lifetime (30 days by default). Fixed in v0.143.0, which requires a JWT secret when the jwt provider is selected and changes the default provider to opaque.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA signoz (SigNoz) Fixed in 0.143.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
signoz 0.143.0
2 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 2 HIGH
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-63931 SigNoz before 0.143.0 Insufficient Session Expiration Authentication BypassPriority HIGH 68
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-97055
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m7r9-jq4r-hmr3
References
More SigNoz vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-62489 SigNoz 0.88.0 through 0.141.0 - Missing Authentication on Trace Funnel Analytics Endpoints CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-62973 SigNoz 0.87.0 before 0.142.0 - SQL Injection in v5 Query Builder Field Key Names CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4
- TI-2026-62911 SigNoz 0.88.0 before 0.142.1 - SQL Injection in Trace Funnel Analytics Query Builders CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4
- TI-2026-63931 SigNoz before 0.143.0 Insufficient Session Expiration Authentication Bypass CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.6
- TI-2026-45044 SigNoz < 0.134.0 SSO OAuth State Manipulation Session Token Theft CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.6
- TI-2026-41722 SigNoz < 0.133.0 - Cross-Organization Insecure Direct Object Reference in Alert Rules CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-97055 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-97055 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-m7r9-jq4r-hmr3 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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