What is CVE-2026-55445?
Qinglong is a timed task management platform supporting Python3, JavaScript, Shell, and Typescript. Prior to 2.20.1, the init guard middleware in back/loaders/express.ts checks /api/user/init but not /open/user/init, while rewrite('/open/*', '/api/$1') rewrites the whitelisted /open/* path after JWT authentication and the guard have passed; an unauthenticated attacker can send PUT /open/user/init to reset administrator credentials on an initialized instance. This issue is fixed in 2.20.1.
The record classifies CVE-2026-55445 under weakness class CWE-287. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 82 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v4.0 base score
- 9.3 — Critical (derived from score)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32.6% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 6/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-07-15
Is CVE-2026-55445 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 38 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- whyour: qinglong
How to fix CVE-2026-55445
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-55445 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-55445
No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2026-55445, in its CVE list or as an indicator. The linkage is recomputed from the live corpus on every daily ingest, so this section fills in as soon as a tracked campaign cites the identifier.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.