CVE-2026-49955
MEDIUM
6,9
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Confidentiality: N/A
Integrity: N/A
Availability: N/A
MEDIUM
5,3
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: low
Description
AI Translation Available
Hermes WebUI before version 0.51.270 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to degrade service availability by repeatedly calling the passkey options endpoint without completing assertion. Attackers can send unlimited POST requests to the authentication endpoint, causing unbounded growth of the challenge store file and excessive CPU and disk I/O through repeated JSON file rewrites.
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System)
Trend Analysis
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System)
Prevede la probabilità di sfruttamento basata su intelligence sulle minacce e sulle caratteristiche della vulnerabilità.
EPSS Score
0,0015
Percentile
0,4th
Updated
EPSS Score Trend (Last 7 Days)
770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
IncompleteCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Other)
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/58528a4d88b0fa4f7b822e31d6051c6…
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3624
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3674
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/releases/tag/v0.51.270
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hermes-webui-resource-exhaustion-via-passk…