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.
CVE-2026-49955
Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-09. the CNA's CVSS baseline 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(high)
- EPSS
- 43.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 9, 2026
Last Modified
June 23, 2026
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Jun 16, 2026Hermes WebUI < 0.51.270 Resource Exhaustion via passkey/options | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hermes-webui-resource-exhaustion-via-passkey-optionsv0.51.270
Patch available: nesquena/hermes-webui v0.51.270
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/releases/tag/v0.51.270Release v0.51.270 — Release IL (stage-u1 — un-hold batch: #3517 #3624 #3613)
Patch available: nesquena/hermes-webui v0.51.424 (PR #3674 merged 2026-06-05)
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3674[security] fix(auth): cap pending passkey challenges
Upstream fix in progress (PR #3624 · nesquena/hermes-webui, state=closed)
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3624commit 58528a4d88b0 (nesquena/hermes-webui)
Patch available: nesquena/hermes-webui v0.51.424 (contains commit 58528a4d88b0)
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/58528a4d88b0fa4f7b822e31d6051c669769bd3bVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-49955(1)
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Weakness Classification(1)
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