{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00017791","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Vantage6: Set admin user and password from environment or configuration","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-fgmc-2hqj-86v4","CVE-2026-54445"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for vantage6. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-678af346fca1332105a3d167d5269e15"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-678af346fca1332105a3d167d5269e15","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fgmc-2hqj-86v4","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-fgmc-2hqj-86v4","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-04T23:34:40.400Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-678af346fca1332105a3d167d5269e15"],"technology":"vantage6","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Impact\nVantage6 currently provides an initial user with username `root` and password `root`. This is not ideal for the following reasons:\n- Attackers know that almost all vantage6 servers have a user with username `root` that probably has admin rights\n- The initial password is very weak and it is possible that administrators forget to reset it.\n\n### Patches\nNo\n\n### Workarounds\nIt is possible to delete the `root` user after it has been used to create other users\n\n### References\nWe could consider doing this like mongodb\n\n### Additional info\n\nLuis uses the following patch to mitigate it:\n```diff\ndiff --git a/vantage6-server/vantage6/server/__init__.py b/vantage6-server/vantage6/server/__init__.py\nindex ea362c1e..c6dcbbd9 100644\n--- a/vantage6-server/vantage6/server/__init__.py\n+++ b/vantage6-server/vantage6/server/__init__.py\n@@ -618,18 +618,30 @@ class ServerApp:\n             # TODO use constant instead of 'Root' literal\n             root = db.Role.get_by_name(\"Root\")\n \n-            log.warn(\n-                f\"Creating root user: \"\n-                f\"username={SUPER_USER_INFO['username']}, \"\n-                f\"password={SUPER_USER_INFO['password","public_affected_ranges":["<= 4.2.3"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-05T19:10:21.468Z","source_updated_at":"2026-07-09T21:06:52.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-06-05T16:45:22.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-04T23:34:40.400Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}