CVE-2026-49955

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.

CVSS v3 5.3 MEDIUM

5.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/58528a4d88b0fa4f7b822e31d6051c669769bd3b
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-passkey-options

Configurations

No configuration.

History

09 Jun 2026, 17:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-06-09 17:17

Updated : 2026-06-09 19:36

NVD link : CVE-2026-49955

Mitre link : CVE-2026-49955

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-49955

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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