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CVE-2020-8890

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-02-12 · updated 2026-06-22
• Weakness: CWE-367

Description

An issue was discovered in MISP before 2.4.121. It mishandled time skew (between the machine hosting the web server and the machine hosting the database) when trying to block a brute-force series of invalid requests.

Affected products

• MISP: before 2.4.121 — fixed in 2.4.121

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MISP 2.4.121. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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
• 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

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