CVE-2025-48738

May 23, 2025, 8:15 p.m.

6.9
Medium

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Strangebee
  • Thehive
  • 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.4.0, 5.5.0

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a strangebee thehive 5.2.0 <5.2.16 / / / / / /
a strangebee thehive 5.3.0 <5.3.11 / / / / / /
a strangebee thehive 5.4.0 <5.4.10 / / / / / /
a strangebee thehive 5.5.0 <5.5.1 / / / / / /

References

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

Tags

cve@mitre.org
CWE-770
2025-05-23
CVE-2025-48738

CVSS Score

6.9 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: LOW
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • 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/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

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Timeline

Published: May 23, 2025, 8:15 p.m.
Last Modified: May 23, 2025, 8:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

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Source

cve@mitre.org

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