Critical severity · published Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2026-48814
Network-AI: Empty default secret still authorizes all requests (Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-46701)
9.1
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Network-AI is a TypeScript/Node.js multi-agent orchestrator. In versions 5.7.1 and earlier, the MCP SSE server allows unauthenticated cross-origin MCP tool invocation due to an empty default secret. This issue was partially addressed by CVE-2026-46701 in version 5.4.5 by closing the CORS flaw (with Access-Control-Allow-Origin now set only for localhost origins), but the empty-default-secret flaw described in the title remained: the SSE MCP server still defaulted to an empty secret, _isAuthorized() still returned true when the secret was empty, and a non-loopback bind only produced a warning. As a result, the server still ran fully unauthenticated by default. Any non-browser caller (for example, curl, SSRF, or a 0.0.0.0 bind) could invoke all 22 MCP tools (config_set, agent_spawn, blackboard_write, token_*) with no credentials. This issue was fixed in version 5.7.2.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NE
Network-AI · Jovancoding
< 5.7.2 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48814
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48814
github.com
https://github.com/Jovancoding/Network-AI/releases/tag/v5.7.2
github.com
https://github.com/Jovancoding/Network-AI/security/advisories/GHSA-r78r-rwrf-rjwp
github.com
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3vx-cx2r-pvg8
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