Cobbr Covenant up to 0.5 hard-coded credentials

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A vulnerability has been found in Cobbr Covenant up to 0.5 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2020-36911. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cobbr Covenant up to 0.5. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-798. The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Covenant 0.1.3 - 0.5 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to craft malicious JWT tokens with administrative privileges. Attackers can generate forged tokens with admin roles and upload custom DLL payloads to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.

The weakness was released by coastal as 51141. It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-36911 since 01/03/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1110.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (51141). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Cobbr

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• Covenant

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• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5

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