CVE-2018-12649
CriticalCVSS 9.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk71th percentile - higher than 71% of all known CVEs
Summary
An issue was discovered in app/Controller/UsersController.php in MISP 2.4.92 that allows an adversary to bypass brute-force protection. This can be done by using the PUT HTTP method instead of POST in the login part, as the protection only covered POST requests.
Risk Assessment
Bypassing brute-force protection increases the risk of unauthorized access to user accounts, potentially leading to serious security breaches.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update MISP to the latest version that fixes this vulnerability and to implement additional security measures to protect against brute-force attacks.
Other vulnerabilities in MISP 2.4.92
See all- CVE-2026-85239High
A vulnerability in MISP allows an authenticated user with permission to create or modify event templates to bypass validation of the template definition field. By supplying a pre-encoded string instead of an array structure, an invalid definition can be persistently stored. On retrieval, invalid JSON triggers an exception, causing HTTP 500 errors in event template functionality.
- CVE-2026-85238High
MISP contains a session fixation vulnerability in the CustomAuth authentication flow. After successful authentication via CustomAuth, MISP stores the authenticated user identity in the existing session without first rotating the session identifier. An attacker who knows the victim's session identifier before authentication can later reuse it to access the victim's authenticated session.
- CVE-2026-85237High
A vulnerability in MISP's email-based one-time password (OTP) authentication flow allowed an attacker to perform an unrestricted number of OTP verification attempts. The email_otp() endpoint did not apply brute-force protection, enabling repeated guessing of OTP and potential bypass of the additional authentication factor.
- CVE-2026-85227Medium
MISP contains a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the event attribute filtering query builder. The taggedAttributes and galaxyAttachedAttributes URL parameters were inserted into the query-builder rules without HTML escaping before being serialized as JSON and embedded inside a <script> element.
- CVE-2026-85226Medium
MISP contains an authorization flaw in the OnDemand correlation engine where correlations were calculated solely from matching attribute values without applying the distribution, sharing group, organization, or other access-control restrictions associated with the correlated attributes and events. As a result, an authenticated user could receive correlation results referring to attributes or events that the user was not authorized to access.
- CVE-2026-61474Medium
An improper authorization check in MISP's attribute creation endpoint allowed an authenticated user with permission to add attributes to submit a sharing_group_id without triggering the corresponding sharing group authorization check, as long as the attribute distribution value was not explicitly set to 4 — 'sharing group'.
- CVE-2017-14337High
In MISP versions before 2.4.80, when configured with X.509 certificate authentication alongside a non-MISP external user management API, an unauthenticated user can gain access as an arbitrary user if the API returns an empty value.
- CVE-2026-86419Critical
Affected versions of MISP contain insufficient validation of server-side outbound HTTP destinations in feed retrieval and TAXII discovery functionality. In feed processing, redirects were followed without validating the redirect scheme or destination, and original request headers were reused, potentially forwarding authentication headers or API credentials to a different host. Redirects could also target internal network resources, resulting in SSRF. The fix adds redirect validation, blocks internal destinations for cross-host redirects, strips configured feed credentials before following redirects to another host, and pins validated DNS results. The TAXII discovery endpoint had a related incomplete SSRF defense using gethostbyname() and comparing against only a few literal addresses, missing cases like IPv6 loopback (::1), numeric host encodings such as 0x7f000001, and multiple DNS records. The fix moves TAXII discovery to the shared URL egress validator.
- CVE-2026-85216Critical
MISP contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in its LDAP and LinOTP authentication components due to insufficient validation of user-supplied credentials. An attacker knowing a valid directory user's email address could submit an empty password, which may be accepted by an LDAP server allowing unauthenticated binds. Additionally, in the LinOTP component, empty passwords could be checked against local MISP password hashes, and LDAP-provisioned accounts could be created with empty local passwords.
- CVE-2026-10868Critical
MISP has a mass assignment vulnerability in the user edit functionality (UsersController::edit()). An authenticated attacker can modify the user ID in the request, leading to updates on another user's account.
Original NVD description (English source)
An issue was discovered in app/Controller/UsersController.php in MISP 2.4.92. An adversary can bypass the brute-force protection by using a PUT HTTP method instead of a POST HTTP method in the login part, because this protection was only covering POST requests.

