CVE-2026-42176

MEDIUM

Scoold: Persistent Admin Takeover by Overwriting the admins Configuration Setting via Forged JWT (missing `jti` validation)

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Scoold is a Q&A and a knowledge sharing platform for teams. Prior to version 1.67.0, Scoold allows the admins configuration value to be modified through /api/config/set/admins with a forged Bearer token that is accepted as an admin API token. Once that setting is changed, the target email address is written to the application configuration file. The change does not become active immediately in the current process, because the ADMINS set is loaded once at startup. After a Scoold restart, though, the selected user is recognized as an administrator and gains access to the admin panel. This issue gives an attacker a reliable persistence path: write their own email into scoold.admins, wait for a restart or trigger one operationally, and the account comes back as admin. This issue has been patched in version 1.67.0.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/Erudika/scoold/releases/tag/1.67.0

Scores

CVSS v3 6.7
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 15.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-306
Status published
Products (1)
Erudika/scoold < 1.67.0
Published May 08, 2026
Tracked Since May 09, 2026