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CVE-2026-44596GHSA-W5R6-MCGQ-7PQ4

Yamcs: No Rate Limiting on Authentication Endpoint

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.12.7
1 on Exploit-DB, 1 proof of concept on GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Yamcs is a mission control framework. Prior to 5.12.7, the authentication endpoint POST /auth/token in yamcs-core, handled by yamcs-core/src/main/java/org/yamcs/http/auth/AuthHandler.java, lacked any rate limiting, account lockout, or failed-attempt throttling, so an unauthenticated remote attacker could perform unlimited password-guessing attempts against any user account, significantly increasing the risk of successful brute-force attacks. This issue is fixed in versions 5.12.7 and 5.13.0.

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-52605

  2. CVE published
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • yamcs yamcs

    fixed in 5.12.7

  • org.yamcs:yamcs-coreMaven

    fixed in 5.12.7

References 7

GitHub · yamcs/yamcs

Exploit-DB

GitHub · ex-cal1bur/CVE-2026-44596