Hard-coded credentials in Agnaistic agnai Docker Compose setup
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-798.
Summary
Agnaistic agnai through 1.0.555 contains hard-coded credentials in self-host.docker-compose.yml, which sets a fixed admin password and a public JWT secret. An unauthenticated attacker can log in as admin or sign a JWT with admin privileges, then impersonate users, reset passwords and change server configuration. This is CWE-798.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Description from the CNA
Agnaistic agnai through 1.0.555 contains a hard-coded credentials vulnerability in self-host.docker-compose.yml, which sets a fixed admin password and public JWT secret. Unauthenticated attackers can log in as admin or sign their own JWT with admin: true to impersonate users, reset passwords, and change server configuration.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- 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
The sources list no fixed version for agnai.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Timeline
- 2026-10-11 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-108753
- 2026-10-11 Alias added: GHSA-jvxj-gpfv-vg4v
- 2026-10-13 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-13 Priority changed: MEDIUM → HIGH
References
Other 4
- https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/6c3de258cb33999c3f292c71aa031d2352681186/self-host.docker-compose.yml#L18-L26
- https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/6c3de258cb33999c3f292c71aa031d2352681186/README.md#L75-L82
- https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/6c3de258cb33999c3f292c71aa031d2352681186/srv/api/auth.ts#L11-L14
- https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai
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- TI-2024-31539 Agnai vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal in Image Upload CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-108753 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-108753 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jvxj-gpfv-vg4v · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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