CVE-2025-53544 (GCVE-0-2025-53544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-05 00:14 – Updated: 2025-08-05 13:55
VLAI
Title
Trilium Notes is Vulnerable to Brute-force Protection Bypass via Initial Sync Seed Retrieval
Summary
Trilium Notes is an open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases. In versions below 0.97.0, a brute-force protection bypass in the initial sync seed retrieval endpoint allows unauthenticated attackers to guess the login password without triggering rate limiting. Trilium is a single-user app without a username requirement, and brute-force protection bypass makes exploitation much more feasible. Multiple features provided by Trilium (e.g. MFA, share notes, custom request handler) indicate that Trilium can be exposed to the internet. This is fixed in version 0.97.0.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-05 13:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7940 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
TriliumNext Trilium Affected: < 0.97.0
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