# CVE-2026-55164: Lemur: Plaintext password storage in Lemur user-update path

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2587, GHSA-Q437-G7FV-2JVV
- Severity: CVSS 4.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.9.2
- Published: 2026-08-18 · Updated: 2026-08-18

## Affected

- Netflix lemur: fixed in 1.9.2
- lemur (PyPI): fixed in 1.9.2

## Description

Lemur manages TLS certificate creation. Prior to 1.9.2, lemur.users.service.update assigned a replacement password directly to users.password, while lemur/users/models.py registered User.hash_password only for the before_insert event. Because no before_update listener ran, administrator-initiated password changes through PUT /api/1/users/ were committed as plaintext. The affected user could no longer authenticate normally because bcrypt verification received an unhashed value. A database, backup, replica, query-log, or administrative read compromise exposed immediately usable credentials without offline cracking. The fix registers hashing for before_update and avoids rehashing values that already have a bcrypt prefix. This issue is fixed in version 1.9.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Netflix lemur, lemur, upgrade to a fixed version (1.9.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Netflix/lemur/security/advisories/GHSA-q437-g7fv-2jvv
- https://github.com/Netflix/lemur/commit/221c6d7275ac667bb8898ab48d2b96926a89c1c4
- https://github.com/Netflix/lemur/releases/tag/v1.9.2

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