High
Security advisory
Koel before 5.1.4 lacks login throttling, lacks a password strength policy, and shows whether a failed login attempt had a valid username. This might make brute-force attacks easier.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-33563
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Koel before 5.1.4 lacks login throttling, lacks a password strength policy, and shows whether a failed login attempt had a valid username. This might make brute-force attacks easier.
osv:CVE-2021-33563
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:47.311793784Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"https://huntr.dev/bounties/1-other-koel/koel/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-05-24T23:15:08.82+00:00"
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