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Critical 9.8Published Oct 18, 2026

CVE-2026-111998Vanus 0.8.0 through 0.9.0 Default Admin Credentials via Gateway

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

Vanus 0.8.0 through 0.9.0 contains a default credentials vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain cluster-admin access by using the hardcoded admin token. Attackers can send the fixed Bearer token to the gateway gRPC proxy port to manage namespaces, eventbuses, users, tokens, and role bindings, and read or publish events.

CVSS
9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1392
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
VulnCheck
NVD analysis
Received
Record last updated
Oct 18, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 18, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
vanus-labs vanus
vanus_labs:vanus (from the name)
from 0.8.0 through 0.9.0
CNA record

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