# CVE-2026-62252: Homer: Hardcoded Default Admin Password 'sipcapture' With No Forced Change on First Login

- Also known as: GO-2026-6671, GHSA-6XP5-7RCX-XFGX
- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 11.0.283, 0.0.0-20260625091610-b2e942031ff8
- Published: 2026-10-07 · Updated: 2026-10-07

## Affected

- sipcapture homer: fixed in 11.0.283
- github.com/sipcapture/homer-app (Go): fixed in 0.0.0-20260625091610-b2e942031ff8
- github.com/sipcapture/homer-app (Go): all versions

## Description

Homer is open source telecom observability software. Prior to version 11.0.283, on every fresh Homer deployment using internal authentication, the bootstrap process automatically creates an `admin` account with the password `sipcapture` (stored as a legacy SHA-256 hex hash). There is no first-login forced-change mechanism. Any attacker who reaches the login endpoint immediately gains full administrative access. Version 11.0.283 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on sipcapture homer, github.com/sipcapture/homer-app, upgrade to a fixed version (11.0.283, 0.0.0-20260625091610-b2e942031ff8) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/sipcapture/homer/security/advisories/GHSA-6xp5-7rcx-xfgx
- https://github.com/sipcapture/homer/pull/838
- https://github.com/sipcapture/homer/commit/b2e942031ff8cd7435a244ebef306ee97d16b809
- https://github.com/sipcapture/homer/releases/tag/11.0.283

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