CVE-2025-53544CWE-307

Trilium Notes is Vulnerable to Brute-force Protection Bypass via Initial Sync Seed Retrieval

High · published August 5, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
29.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Trilium Notes is an open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases. In versions below 0.97.0, a brute-force protection bypass in the initial sync seed retrieval endpoint allows unauthenticated attackers to guess the login password without triggering rate limiting. Trilium is a single-user app without a username requirement, and brute-force protection bypass makes exploitation much more feasible. Multiple features provided by Trilium (e.g. MFA, share notes, custom request handler) indicate that Trilium can be exposed to the internet. This is fixed in version 0.97.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00366 · 29.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-307 · Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
Published
2025-08-05T00:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 AUG 00:14Z
    Trilium Notes is Vulnerable to Brute-force Protection Bypass via Initial Sync Seed Retrieval
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