CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-86452

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.31%

23th percentile - higher than 23% of all known CVEs

Summary

Affected versions of MISP permit unauthenticated or weakly constrained request paths to perform persistent work without adequate input bounds or rate limiting. The users/forgot password-reset endpoint accepted an attacker-controlled email value without first imposing a reasonable length bound or validating its format, causing the supplied value to be persisted more than once per request. The fix adds a maximum email input length of 1024 bytes, email-format validation, a per-source pre-authentication request budget, HTTP 429 responses, a 15-minute cooldown, and POST-only handling with CSRF protection.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated attacker can cause excessive resource consumption and storage costs through repeated password-reset requests, potentially leading to denial of service. This may also be used to flood audit logs and job queues.

Recommendation

Update MISP to a version containing the fix (later than 2.5.45). Implement rate limiting and input validation on public endpoints and monitor for unusual password-reset traffic.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Affected versions of MISP permit unauthenticated or weakly constrained request paths to perform persistent work without adequate input bounds or rate limiting. The users/forgot password-reset endpoint accepted an attacker-controlled email value without first imposing a reasonable length bound or validating its format. That value was then used to create an audit log entry and queue a password-reset job, causing the supplied value to be persisted more than once per request. The commit explicitly states that an unbounded unauthenticated request field was stored twice per call with no throttle. The fix adds:  - a maximum email input length of 1024 bytes;  - email-format validation before persistent work;  - a per-source pre-authentication request budget;  - HTTP 429 responses when that budget is exceeded;  - a 15-minute cooldown for API-access request emails;  - POST-only handling and CSRF protection for the API-access request endpoint. The new flood filter is specifically intended to limit persistent storage costs from anonymous requests such as password resets, registrations, and failed REST authentication attempts. Version affected: ≤2.5.45

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS