CVE-2026-49955
Severity CVSS v4.0:
MEDIUM
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
09/06/2026
Last modified:
09/06/2026
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.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
6.90
Severity 4.0
MEDIUM
Base Score 3.x
5.30
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- 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



