Description
HireFlow is a web-based interview management system for managing candidates, scheduling interviews, and tracking hiring progress. In 1.2 and earlier, app.py assigns a hard-coded Flask secret_key used to sign session cookies, allowing unauthenticated attackers who know the public source value to forge cookies containing role=admin and user_id values and bypass authentication. The advisory lists version 1.3 as fixed.
Published: 2026-07-16
Score: 10 Critical
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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Description HireFlow is a web-based interview management system for managing candidates, scheduling interviews, and tracking hiring progress. In 1.2 and earlier, app.py assigns a hard-coded Flask secret_key used to sign session cookies, allowing unauthenticated attackers who know the public source value to forge cookies containing role=admin and user_id values and bypass authentication. The advisory lists version 1.3 as fixed.
Title HireFlow: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Weaknesses CWE-798
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 10, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L'}

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-16T17:03:00.629Z

Reserved: 2026-05-11T21:40:08.176Z

Link: CVE-2026-45336

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-798

    Use of Hard-coded Credentials