CVE-2025-14261 HIGH

CVE-2025-14261: Lack of entropy allows registered low-privileged users of Litmus to crack valid JWT tokens and gain admin privileges

Vendor Litmuschaos

Product litmus

Weakness CWE-331

Published December 8, 2025

Last update December 8, 2025

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CVSS base score

7.1/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required Low

User interaction None

Confidentiality Low

Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Litmus platform uses JWT for authentication and authorization, but the secret being used for signing the JWT is only 6 bytes long at its core, which makes it extremely easy to crack.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 8, 2025 CVE published

December 8, 2025 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14261 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/331.html