CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-77561
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-09-24
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-307
Description
Tinyauth is an authentication and authorization server. Prior to 5.1.0, an unauthenticated remote attacker can send POST /api/user/login requests with 257 distinct nonexistent usernames to fill MaxLoginAttemptRecords and activate a global login lockdown. internal/controller/user_controller.go loginHandler passes each attacker-controlled identifier to internal/service/auth_service.go RecordLoginAttempt, which invokes lockdownMode after the map reaches its cap. IsAccountLocked checks that global state before validating unrelated accounts, causing valid users to receive HTTP 429 until auth.loginTimeout expires, approximately 300 seconds by default. The attack can be repeated, but existing authenticated sessions are not invalidated. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.0.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts weakness
References
- https://github.com/tinyauthapp/tinyauth/commit/654b5cc436fc67865c1f55edf9ba9fbded50b74f github.com
- https://github.com/tinyauthapp/tinyauth/commit/dade1e2c8f27a23df56ac216dcaf4b37081698e7 github.com
- https://github.com/tinyauthapp/tinyauth/pull/1008 github.com
- https://github.com/tinyauthapp/tinyauth/pull/943 github.com
- https://github.com/tinyauthapp/tinyauth/releases/tag/v5.1.0 github.com
- https://github.com/tinyauthapp/tinyauth/security/advisories/GHSA-9xhm-w3wj-xhqh github.com
- https://github.com/tinyauthapp/tinyauth/security/advisories/GHSA-9xhm-w3wj-xhqh github.com