---
id: CVE-2025-14261
title: >-
  The Litmus platform uses JWT for authentication and authorization, but the
  secret being used for signing the JWT is only 6 bytes long at its core, which
  makes it extremely easy to crack.
summary: >-
  The Litmus platform uses JWT for authentication and authorization, but the
  secret being used for signing the JWT is only 6 bytes long at its core, which
  makes it extremely easy to crack.
severity: high
cvss: 7.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-331
published: '2025-12-08'
updated: '2026-10-07'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-07T20:10:01.970'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14261'
references:
  - url: 'https://github.com/litmuschaos/litmus/pull/5324'
    label: reefs@jfrog.com
  - url: >-
      https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/litmus-jwt-missing-entropy-elevation-jfsa-2025-001648159/
    label: reefs@jfrog.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00302
epssPercentile: 0.20913
ingestedAt: '2026-10-07T20:46:46.774Z'
---

## Overview

The Litmus platform uses JWT for authentication and authorization, but the secret being used for signing the JWT is only 6 bytes long at its core, which makes it extremely easy to crack.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.