CVE-2026-55164CWE-256

CVE-2026-55164

Medium · published August 18, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Lemur manages TLS certificate creation. Prior to 1.9.2, lemur.users.service.update assigned a replacement password directly to users.password, while lemur/users/models.py registered User.hash_password only for the before_insert event. Because no before_update listener ran, administrator-initiated password changes through PUT /api/1/users/ were committed as plaintext. The affected user could no longer authenticate normally because bcrypt verification received an unhashed value. A database, backup, replica, query-log, or administrative read compromise exposed immediately usable credentials without offline cracking. The fix registers hashing for before_update and avoids rehashing values that already have a bcrypt prefix. This issue is fixed in version 1.9.2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00289 · 20.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-256 · Plaintext Storage of a Password
Published
2026-08-18T23:16Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 AUG 18:53Z
    Lemur: Plaintext password storage in Lemur user-update path
    cvelistv5