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Vulnerability · Published May 23, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2025-48738

Medium 6.9

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in TheHive from StrangeBee. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 45% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)6.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 54.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
StrangeBee TheHive 5.2.0 – before 5.2.165.3.0 – before 5.3.115.4.0 – before 5.4.105.5.0 – before 5.5.1

Weakness: CWE-770 · 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

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