CVE-2023-27584 Dragonfly2 vulnerable to hard coded cyptographic key

What is CVE-2023-27584?

CVE-2023-27584 is a critical vulnerability in dragonflyoss Dragonfly2, published on 19 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dragonfly is an open source P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system. It is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an Incubating Level Project. Dragonfly uses JWT to verify user. However, the secret key for JWT, "Secret Key", is hard coded, which leads to authentication bypass. An attacker can perform any action as a user with admin privileges. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.0.9. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-798, CWE-321

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-27584?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including d7y.io/dragonfly/v2. It affects 1 product.

Products include Linuxfoundation Dragonfly.

How do I fix CVE-2023-27584?

Upgrade d7y.io/dragonfly/v2 to a fixed version for your release line: 2.0.9-rc.2 or 2.1.0-beta.1.

Is CVE-2023-27584 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-27584 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template.

Other vulnerabilities in dragonflyoss Dragonfly2

• CVE-2026-24124 Dragonfly Manager Job API Allows Unauthenticated Access High 8.9
• CVE-2025-59345 Dragonfly did not enable authentication for some Manager’s endpoints High 7.7
• CVE-2025-59353 Manager generates mTLS certificates for arbitrary IP addresses High 7.7
• CVE-2025-59352 Dragonfly allows arbitrary file read and write on a peer machine Medium 6.9
• CVE-2025-59346 Dragonfly server-side request forgery vulnerability Medium 5.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-hpc8-7wpm-889w, GO-2024-3136.