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title: "CVE-2026-48814: Network-AI: CVE-2026-46701 fix incomplete — empty default secret still authorizes all requests"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2026-48814/
description: "CVE-2026-48814 (network-ai (npm)): Network-AI is a TypeScript/Node.js multi-agent orchestrator. In versions 5.7.1 and earlier, the MCP SSE server allows…"
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2026-06-17
date_modified: 2026-06-19
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2026-48814"
kev: false
cvss: 9.1
epss: 0.00521
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# CVE-2026-48814: Network-AI: CVE-2026-46701 fix incomplete — empty default secret still authorizes all requests

**Signal:** Critical and remotely reachable. No known exploitation yet, but it is network-reachable without credentials. (Computed from CISA KEV, EPSS and CVSS; not an editorial verdict.)

## Should you act?

- Not in CISA KEV , but CISA’s SSVC assessment records a public proof-of-concept, so attack code exists.
- EPSS 0.5% , percentile 43: FIRST’s model estimates a 0.5% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (low). EPSS is a probability, not a verdict.
- Remotely reachable with no login and no user interaction. If the vulnerable service is exposed to the internet, prioritize it.
- Only applies if your dependency tree includes network-ai (npm) <= 5.7.1, fixed in 5.7.2 . Check your lockfile, including transitive dependencies.

## What it is

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 (configset, agentspawn, blackboardwrite, token) with no credentials. This issue was fixed in version 5.7.2.

## Affected packages

- npm `network-ai` <= 5.7.1 → fixed: 5.7.2

## Affected products (CVE record)

- Jovancoding Network-AI: < 5.7.2

## Severity

- GitHub_M CVSS 3.1: 9.1 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`
- GitHub CVSS 3.1: 9.1 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`

## Exploitation

- CISA KEV: not listed (no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation known to CISA).
- CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation poc , automatable yes , technical impact partial .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 0.52% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 43.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory GHSA-r78r-rwrf-rjwp](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r78r-rwrf-rjwp)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2026-48814](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48814)
- [NVD entry CVE-2026-48814](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48814)
- [github.com](https://github.com/Jovancoding/Network-AI/security/advisories/GHSA-r78r-rwrf-rjwp)
- [github.com](https://github.com/Jovancoding/Network-AI/releases/tag/v5.7.2)
- [github.com](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3vx-cx2r-pvg8)

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