# CVE-2026-55835: Lookyloo: Potential sub-system DoS due to parameter missmatch in notification

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-108582, GHSA-66GJ-HMCP-5CFJ
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.39.4
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-23

## Summary

Lookyloo, a web interface for capturing websites and mapping the domains they call, is affected through its report-a-capture API endpoint. An unauthenticated user could trigger an administrative search on a connected MISP instance, which could overload that MISP server and cause a denial of service.

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## Affected

- lookyloo: fixed in 1.39.4

## Description

Lookyloo is a web interface that allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other. Prior to version 1.39.4, an unauthenticated user can trigger Lookyloo's "report a capture" email on demand (this is expected). The /json/<uuid>/report API endpoint (CaptureReport) is incorrectly passing the email and comment parameters, overwriting as_admin. When True, as_admin will trigger a search query on a MISP instance (if configured) and add a list of matching URLs in the email sent to the analyst (not the submitter, so there is no risk of leaking information) . It could potentially cause a DoS on the MISP instance. This issue has been patched in version 1.39.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on lookyloo, upgrade to a fixed version (1.39.4) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/Lookyloo/lookyloo/security/advisories/GHSA-66gj-hmcp-5cfj
- https://github.com/Lookyloo/lookyloo/pull/1330
- https://github.com/Lookyloo/lookyloo/commit/d5b9a401998cd50b88e5d7425f82baac78d8f082
- https://github.com/Lookyloo/lookyloo/releases/tag/v1.39.4

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