CVE-2026-55241CWE-400CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-55241

High · published August 21, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. Prior to 3.9.1, the public POST /api/v1/auth/register route in server/src/api/routes/authRoutes.ts passes multipart profileImage uploads through in-memory Multer parsing before registration validation, without file-size, file-count, or MIME-type limits in server/src/api/middleware/upload.ts. An unauthenticated attacker can submit concurrent oversized files that are buffered before invalid registration or invite-token checks reject the request, exhausting memory and crashing or destabilizing the backend. This issue is fixed in version 3.9.1.

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:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00618 · 49.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-08-21T22:16Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 AUG 17:57Z
    Checkmate: Pre-auth Denial of Service via File Upload on Registration
    cvelistv5