CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-25726

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.38%

30th percentile - higher than 30% of all known CVEs

Summary

Vulnerability in Cloudreve (self-hosted file management and sharing system) before version 4.13.0. The application uses a weak PRNG (math/rand) seeded with admin account creation time. An attacker can recover the secret_key and forge JWT tokens, leading to admin account takeover.

Risk Assessment

Risk of full admin account takeover and privilege escalation, allowing access to all files and system settings.

Recommendation

Upgrade Cloudreve to version 4.13.0 or later. After upgrade, change secret_key and hash_id_salt in the database.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Cloudreve is a self-hosted file management and sharing system. Prior to version 4.13.0, the application uses the weak pseudo-random number generator math/rand seeded with time.Now().UnixNano() to generate critical security secrets, including the secret_key, and hash_id_salt. These secrets are generated upon first startup and persisted in the database. An attacker can exploit this by obtaining the administrator's account creation time (via public API endpoints) to narrow the search window for the PRNG seed, and use known hashid to validate the seed. By brute-forcing the seed (demonstrated to take <3 hours on general consumer PC), an attacker can predict the secret_key. This allows them to forge valid JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for any user, including administrators, leading to full account takeover and privilege escalation. This issue has been patched in version 4.13.0.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS