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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-8891

An issue was discovered in MISP before 2.4.121. It did not canonicalize usernames when trying to block a brute-force series of invalid requests.

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CVE-2020-8891
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31 Oct 2026, 11:31 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-8891

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Feb 2020, 00:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in MISP before 2.4.121. It did not canonicalize usernames when trying to block a brute-force series of invalid requests.

osv:CVE-2020-8891
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-8891",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-8891",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in MISP before 2.4.121. It did not canonicalize usernames when trying to block a brute-force series of invalid requests.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-8891",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-8891",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-8891"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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                {
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8891.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:25.809449129Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/MISP/MISP/commit/934c82819237b4edf1da64587b72a87bec5dd520",
        "https://github.com/MISP/MISP/commit/c1a0b3b2809b21b4df8c1efbc803aff700e262c3",
        "https://github.com/MISP/MISP/compare/v2.4.120...v2.4.121"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-8891",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385354,
  "published_at": "2020-02-12T00:15:09.607+00:00"
}