CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2025-56749 — Creativeitem Academy LMS up to and including 6.14 uses a hardcoded default JWT secret for token signing
Critical
CVSS 9.4
Creativeitem Academy LMS up to and including 6.14 uses a hardcoded default JWT secret for token signing. This predictable secret allows attackers to forge valid JWT tokens, leading to authentication bypass and unauthorized access to any user account.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.4 (3.1)
- Published
- 2025-10-15
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-798
Affected products
- creativeitem / academy_lms
Matched remediation archetype
Authentication bypass and missing authentication
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Check exposure
- Map every affected endpoint and protocol path, including alternate ports, legacy routes, recovery flows, service accounts, and machine-to-machine access.
- Confirm which deployments enable the affected authentication mode and whether the interface is reachable from untrusted networks.
- Review session, token, credential, and proxy trust configuration without attempting account takeover.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and centralize fail-closed authentication before protected request handling.
- Remove default or embedded credentials, rotate affected secrets and sessions, and bind authentication decisions to the intended audience and channel.
- Add negative tests for alternate routes, malformed or absent credentials, recovery flows, and proxy-derived identity.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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