CVE-2025-48738

State: Published
Severity: 6.9 Medium
Published: May 23, 2025
Updated: May 23, 2025
Reserved: May 23, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.9 Medium	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	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
TheHiveStrangeBee	5.2.0 to before 5.2.16Affected 5.3.0 to before 5.3.11Affected 5.4.0 to before 5.4.10Affected 5.5.0 to before 5.5.1Affected

References

https://github.com/StrangeBeeCorp/Security/blob/main/Security%20advisories/SB-SEC-ADV-2025-003.md

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