CVE-2026-58488
MediumCVSS 6.9Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk21th percentile - higher than 21% of all known CVEs
Summary
HedgeDoc versions prior to 1.11.0 allowed attackers to bypass rate-limiting on /login and /register routes by spoofing the cf-connecting-ip header. The application trusted this header even when the request did not originate from Cloudflare, enabling login spam or mass account creation.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can perform brute-force attacks on user passwords or create numerous fake accounts, leading to resource exhaustion and potential account takeover.
Recommendation
Upgrade HedgeDoc to version 1.11.0 or later immediately, which fixes the vulnerability by properly validating the source of the cf-connecting-ip header.
Other vulnerabilities in HedgeDoc
See all- CVE-2026-58489Medium
In HedgeDoc prior to version 1.11.0, the GitHub Gist export flow had an OAuth2 state validation flaw. The state parameter was only checked for presence, not validated against the user's session, allowing an attacker to forge a callback URL. A logged-in victim clicking a crafted link could export their private note to an attacker-controlled Gist.
- CVE-2026-58486High
HedgeDoc before version 1.11.0 was vulnerable to a YAML alias bomb in note frontmatter. Unsafe parsing with js-yaml.load expanded YAML anchor aliases, creating huge object structures and excessive CPU consumption. An attack could block the Node.js event loop for about 235 seconds per request, causing denial of service (DoS).
- CVE-2026-58487Medium
HedgeDoc before version 1.11.0 was vulnerable to stored HTML Injection due to unsafe handling of the local-part of registered email addresses. An attacker could register a specially crafted email address and inject arbitrary HTML into pages viewed by other users.
- CVE-2023-38487Medium
HedgeDoc prior to version 1.9.9 allowed the creation of notes with an alias matching the ID of existing notes, effectively hiding the original notes. Users could exploit this vulnerability to manipulate note content and prevent access to original notes.
Original NVD description (English source)
HedgeDoc is an open source, real-time, collaborative, markdown notes application. Versions prior to 1.11.0 allowed attackers to circumvent the rate-limiting of the /login and /register routes by spoofing IP addresses. HedgeDoc instances checked for CloudFlare's cf-connecting-ip header and used that instead of the users real IP address, if the header was present even when the request did not originate from Cloudflare. This made it possible for an attacker to spam login requests or create multiple arbitrary accounts by sending another cf-connecting-ip header every few requests. The issue has been fixed in version 1.11.0.