CVE-2025-48738 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-48738

Vendor Strangebee
Product TheHive
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published May 23, 2025
Last update May 23, 2025

CVSS base score

6.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

An e-mail flooding vulnerability in StrangeBee TheHive 5.2.0 before 5.2.16, 5.3.0 before 5.3.11, 5.4.0 before 5.4.10, and 5.5.0 before 5.5.1 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to use the password reset feature without limits. This can lead to several consequences, including mailbox storage exhaustion for targeted users, reputation damage to the SMTP server, potentially causing it to be blacklisted, and overload of the SMTP server's outbound mail queue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 23, 2025 CVE published
May 23, 2025 Record updated