CVE-2026-90961
MISP LdapAuth and LinOTPAuth Authentication Bypass via Empty or Non-String Credentials
02 Description
MISP LdapAuth and LinOTPAuth Authentication Bypass via Empty or Non-String Credentials
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.64% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 50.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.3 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- NVD analysis status
- Deferred. NVD last modified this record on 2026-09-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-09-14 13:22Z1 MO AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-09-14 13:55Z1 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-09-14
- Assigning CNA
- CIRCL
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 9.3)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- c845baa5f8549022935af7971da985442165cf1aef92f7a9ab92b0a6ec84f024
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comSecurity patchhttps://github.com/MISP/MISP/commit/0ee058548
07 Remediation
The fix adds explicit type and emptiness validation for the email and password fields in both LdapAuthenticate and LinOTPAuthenticate before any authentication logic is invoked. Non-string or empty credentials are rejected with a logged error and a false return. Additionally, the LDAP authenticator now assigns a cryptographically random password to auto-provisioned user accounts instead of an empty string, preventing the stored hash of '' from being verifiable in the mixed-authentication fallback path. The LinOTP authenticator also rejects an empty password specifically in the mixed-authentication branch where the password is checked against the local database.