CVE-2026-49955
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.
Published:Jun 9, 2026
Last Modified:Jul 14, 2026
EPS:Jun 9, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00586
CVSS Score:5.3
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Get-hermes
Product
Hermes Web Ui
Get-hermes
Hermes Web Ui
Vendor
Nesquena
Product
Hermes-webui
Nesquena
Hermes-webui
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
