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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
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.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-49955
Source
VulnCheck
Published
Jun 9, 2026 at 16:05
Affected Product
Vendor
nesquena
Product
hermes-webui
Affected Versions
nesquena hermes-webui 0
CWE Classification
References
- github.com /nesquena/hermes-webui/releases/tag/v0.51.270
- github.com /nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3624
- github.com /nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3674
- github.com /nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/58528a4d88b0fa4f7b822e31d6051c669769bd3b
- www.vulncheck.com /advisories/hermes-webui-resource-exhaustion-via-passkey-options