CVE-2026-49955
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- 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
CWEs
CWE-770
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.