CVE-2023-22463

CRITICAL EXPLOITED NUCLEI

KubePi < 1.6.3 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials in JWT Authentication

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2023-22463 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV). A Nuclei detection template is also available.

Description

KubePi is a k8s panel. The jwt authentication function of KubePi through version 1.6.2 uses hard-coded Jwtsigkeys, resulting in the same Jwtsigkeys for all online projects. This means that an attacker can forge any jwt token to take over the administrator account of any online project. Furthermore, they may use the administrator to take over the k8s cluster of the target enterprise. `session.go`, the use of hard-coded JwtSigKey, allows an attacker to use this value to forge jwt tokens arbitrarily. The JwtSigKey is confidential and should not be hard-coded in the code. The vulnerability has been fixed in 1.6.3. In the patch, JWT key is specified in app.yml. If the user leaves it blank, a random key will be used. There are no workarounds aside from upgrading.

Nuclei Templates (1)

KubePi JwtSigKey - Admin Authentication Bypass
CRITICALVERIFIEDby DhiyaneshDK
Shodan: html:"kubepi" || http.html:"kubepi"
FOFA: kubepi || body="kubepi"

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.9152
EPSS Percentile 99.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2025-06-23
CWE
CWE-798
Status published
Products (2)
fit2cloud/kubepi < 1.6.3
KubeOperator/kubepi 0 - 1.6.3Go
Published Jan 04, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026