CVE-2026-62860CWE-208

Picsou vulnerable to login timing attack

Medium · published October 30, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
—
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Picsou is a self-hosted personal finance dashboard. In the affected login implementation, the `/api/auth/login` endpoint reveals whether a username exists through a timing discrepancy. In `backend/src/main/java/com/picsou/controller/AuthController.java`, `AuthController.login()` throws `BadCredentialsException` immediately for an unknown username, before `passwordEncoder.matches(...)`, whereas an existing username with an incorrect password incurs the `bcrypt` comparison cost. Both cases return the same generic `HTTP 401` response, but repeated latency measurements disclose valid usernames without credentials. Login rate limiting, a small user population, and deployments inaccessible from outside the local network limit practical exposure; the weakness does not itself read or modify account data, though enumerated usernames can assist credential stuffing or brute-force attacks. This issue is fixed in repository release 1.0.8.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
Not scored
Weakness
CWE-208 · Observable Timing Discrepancy
Published
2026-10-30T20:40Z
Timeline
  • 30 OCT 20:40Z
    Picsou vulnerable to login timing attack
    cvelistv5
  • 30 OCT 20:40Z
    Picsou vulnerable to login timing attack
    cvelistv5