CVE-2026-49955 (GCVE-0-2026-49955)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-09 16:05 – Updated: 2026-07-14 21:33 X_Open Source
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Hermes WebUI < 0.51.270 Resource Exhaustion via passkey/options
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-09 18:23 UTC
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/releases… | release-notes |
| https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3624 | issue-tracking |
| https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3674 | issue-tracking |
| https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/5… | patch |
| https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hermes-webui… | third-party-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nesquena | hermes-webui |
Affected:
0 , < 0.51.270
(semver)
|
Date Public
2026-06-05 00:00
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