# CVE-2026-44596: Yamcs: No Rate Limiting on Authentication Endpoint

- Also known as: GHSA-W5R6-MCGQ-7PQ4
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 5.12.7
- Published: 2026-07-16 · Updated: 2026-07-17

## Affected

- yamcs: fixed in 5.12.7
- org.yamcs:yamcs-core (Maven): fixed in 5.12.7

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on yamcs, org.yamcs:yamcs-core, upgrade to a fixed version (5.12.7) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/security/advisories/GHSA-w5r6-mcgq-7pq4
- https://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/commit/309218c651680f79df11a8d0f8628f7033f98a83
- https://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/commit/64392df531fbcbc65f19ee5724c4c23d289f49fc
- https://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/releases/tag/yamcs-5.12.7
- https://github.com/yamcs/yamcs/releases/tag/yamcs-5.13.0
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52605
- https://github.com/ex-cal1bur/CVE-2026-44596

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