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CVE-2026-45336: HireFlow: Use of Hard-coded Credentials

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-16 · updated 2026-10-24
• Weakness: CWE-798

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.

Affected products

• StratonWebDesigners HireFlow: before 1.3

References

• https://github.com/StratonWebDesigners/HireFlow/releases/tag/v1.3
• https://github.com/StratonWebDesigners/HireFlow/security/advisories/GHSA-x53g-jr84-jrv5
• https://github.com/StratonWebDesigners/HireFlow/security/advisories/GHSA-x53g-jr84-jrv5

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