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REPORTPUBLIC METADATA

Minting Next.js Authentication Cookies

In this post, we’ll look how an adversary can mint authentication cookies for Next.js (next-auth/Auth.js) applications to maintain persistent access to the application as any user. The reason this is important is because of React2Shell, which is a deserialization vulnerability that allows an adversary to run arbitrary code. Much has been discussed about this vulnerability, and you can read up the original details from the finder here.

Reference details

Source category
research-report
First reported
Jan 15, 2026 06:58 UTC
Last reported
Jan 15, 2026 06:58 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 13, 2026 14:55 UTC
Record ID
2516a5bfcbef2bb7a023b32bae0484cccdcc41fad2c1c7acadef53ec2db7ed7e

Published indicators

Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.

No validated file hashes or network indicators are stored for this record.

Source observations

intelligence_src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7

Source-provided label
Publisher RSS metadata
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Jan 15, 2026 06:58 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 13, 2026 14:55 UTC

This record contains metadata and attribution only. It does not host, download, unpack, render, or execute malware samples.

Feed collection status

Sources represented on this page. Publication and observation dates describe the content; successful batch dates describe local collection. A recent batch does not certify complete coverage or current provider availability.

1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 0 unverified.

Review source update dates and status
  • intelligence_src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7Recent successful batchLast successful batch: Last attempt:

Stale means older than twice the recorded collection interval, with a minimum of one hour; without an interval, the threshold is 24 hours. Cached content remains available while a feed is stale, paused, or unverified.