CVE-2026-75575

Rocket.Chat Missing DDP Rate Limit on the sendForgotPasswordEmail Meteor Method

State
Published
Severity
6.9 Medium
Published
Aug 25, 2026
Updated
Aug 29, 2026
Reserved
Aug 17, 2026

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Description

Rocket.Chat exposes the sendForgotPasswordEmail Meteor method without a DDP rate limit, so an unauthenticated caller may invoke it as often as it likes. The method is reachable over DDP and over the HTTP route POST /api/v1/method.callAnon/sendForgotPasswordEmail, and it triggers a password reset message for any address that matches an account. With no DDPRateLimiter rule registered for it, a caller can drive an unbounded volume of reset mail at a chosen address from the deployment's own mail sender, and can probe addresses at scale: the method answers true for an address with no account and for a successful send, but false when the address belongs to an account that authenticates through an external provider and Accounts_AllowPasswordChangeForOAuthUsers is off, so repeated calls distinguish that class of account. Later versions register a rule permitting ten calls per minute per client address.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
  • CWE-204 Observable Response Discrepancy

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Rocket.ChatRocketChat
  • before 7.10.15Affected
  • 8.0.0 to before 8.1.8Affected
  • 8.2.0 to before 8.2.8Affected
  • 8.3.0 to before 8.3.8Affected
  • 8.4.0 to before 8.4.6Affected
  • 8.5.0 to before 8.5.3Affected
  • 8.6.0 to before 8.6.2Affected
  • 8.7.0 to before 8.7.2Affected
  • 8.8.0-rc.0 to before 8.8.0Affected

References

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