Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in app/Controller/UsersController.php in MISP 2.4.92. An adversary can bypass the brute-force protection by using a PUT HTTP method instead of a POST HTTP method in the login part, because this protection was only covering POST requests.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12649
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in app/Controller/UsersController.php in MISP 2.4.92. An adversary can bypass the brute-force protection by using a PUT HTTP method instead of a POST HTTP method in the login part, because this protection was only covering POST requests.
osv:CVE-2018-12649
Complete source record
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