gravitl/netmaker · Security
Netmaker does not verify JWT signatures for host tokens
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-qpv2-rwc8-c993
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-38651
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 8.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 9.2 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N
Description
Netmaker by Gravitl is an open-source WireGuard-based networking platform for creating and managing virtual overlay networks. The VerifyHostToken function in logic/jwts.go does not validate the JWT signature when verifying host tokens. After calling jwt.ParseWithClaims, the function only checks whether the returned token object is non-nil. It does not check token.Valid or the returned error. An attacker can forge a JWT signed with any key, set the claims to any host ID, and pull that host's full configuration including bcrypt-hashed passwords, MQTT credentials, and WireGuard peer data. The issue was patched in v1.5.0.
CWEs
- CWE-347 · Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature