---
title: "CVE-2026-108753: Agnaistic agnai - Authentication Bypass"
description: "Agnaistic agnai 1.0.555 contains a hardcoded credentials vulnerability caused by fixed admin password and public JWT secret in self-host.docker-compose.yml, letting unauthenticated attackers impersonate admin, reset passwords, and change configuration, exploit requires no authentication."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-108753/
---

# CVE-2026-108753 Agnaistic agnai - Authentication Bypass

Agnaistic agnai 1.0.555 contains a hardcoded credentials vulnerability caused by fixed admin password and public JWT secret in self-host.docker-compose.yml, letting unauthenticated attackers impersonate admin, reset passwords, and change configuration, exploit requires no authentication.

CVSS base score 9.4 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

EPSS

0.34% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-108753)

## Details

Type

Authentication Bypass

Impact

Broken Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Published

11 October 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-798](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/798.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest version with fixed credentials or rotate admin passwords and JWT secrets immediately.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-108753](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-108753)
- [https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/6c3de258cb33999c3f292c71aa031d2352681186/srv/api/auth.ts#L11-L14](https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/6c3de258cb33999c3f292c71aa031d2352681186/srv/api/auth.ts#L11-L14)
- [https://hackmd.io/@haind/agnai-selfhost-compose-hardcoded-admin-jwt-secret](https://hackmd.io/@haind/agnai-selfhost-compose-hardcoded-admin-jwt-secret)
- [https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/agnaistic-agnai-through-1.0.555-hard-coded-credentials-in-self-host-docker-compose](https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/agnaistic-agnai-through-1.0.555-hard-coded-credentials-in-self-host-docker-compose)
- [https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai](https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai)
- [https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/6c3de258cb33999c3f292c71aa031d2352681186/README.md#L75-L82](https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/6c3de258cb33999c3f292c71aa031d2352681186/README.md#L75-L82)
- [https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/6c3de258cb33999c3f292c71aa031d2352681186/self-host.docker-compose.yml#L18-L26](https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/6c3de258cb33999c3f292c71aa031d2352681186/self-host.docker-compose.yml#L18-L26)

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- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
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