CVE-2026-27801

Vaultwarden: 2FA Bypass on Protected Actions due to Faulty Rate Limit Enforcement

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Mar 4, 2026
Updated
Mar 5, 2026
Reserved
Feb 24, 2026

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Description

Vaultwarden is an unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs. Vaultwarden versions 1.34.3 and prior are susceptible to a 2FA bypass when performing protected actions. An attacker who gains authenticated access to a user’s account can exploit this bypass to perform protected actions such as accessing the user’s API key or deleting the user’s vault and organisations the user is an admin/owner of . This issue has been patched in version 1.35.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.0 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Affected Products

ProductVersions
vaultwardendani-garcia
  • < 1.35.0Affected

References

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