TOTP enrollment hijack: password gate skipped due to unawaited promise

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-49467",
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  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "TOTP enrollment hijack: password gate skipped due to unawaited promise",
    "summary": "Pingvin Share X is a secure and easy self-hosted file sharing platform. A vulnerability in versions 1.5.0 through 1.18.0 allow an attacker to bypass password verification when managing Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) settings. The root cause is a missing `await` keyword on calls to the asynchronous `verifyPassword` method in `authTotp.service.ts` and the `authenticateUser` method in `auth.service.ts`. In JavaScript, an unawaited `Promise` is always truthy. So the logic intended to throw a `ForbiddenException` when a password is incorrect. It never executes because the expression evaluates the existence of the `Promise` object rather than its resolved boolean result. The vulnerability is fixed in version 1.18.1 by ensuring all asynchronous authentication calls are properly awaited. There are no official workarounds. If a user is locked out, an administrator must manually reset the user's TOTP status in the database.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-49467",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:52.978889316Z",
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      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/49xxx/CVE-2026-49467.json",
        "https://github.com/smp46/pingvin-share-x/security/advisories/GHSA-59q6-jvp6-w282",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49467"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 521883,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T17:02:26.556+00:00"
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