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CVE-2025-48738
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v4.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-770
Description
An e-mail flooding vulnerability in StrangeBee TheHive 5.2.0 before 5.2.16, 5.3.0 before 5.3.11, 5.4.0 before 5.4.10, and 5.5.0 before 5.5.1 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to use the password reset feature without limits. This can lead to several consequences, including mailbox storage exhaustion for targeted users, reputation damage to the SMTP server, potentially causing it to be blacklisted, and overload of the SMTP server's outbound mail queue.
Affected products
- StrangeBee TheHive: from 5.2.0 before 5.2.16; from 5.3.0 before 5.3.11; from 5.4.0 before 5.4.10; from 5.5.0 before 5.5.1 — fixed in 5.2.16, 5.3.11, 5.4.10, 5.5.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: StrangeBee TheHive 5.2.16, 5.3.11, 5.4.10, 5.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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