vulnerability / NVI-00005954 / Revision 3
Automad has Broken Access Control: Unauthenticated exposure of administrator bcrypt password hashes and TOTP secrets via public API endpoint
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01 / Meaning
Why it matters
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7.5 HIGH (3.1)
security-advisories@github.com severity; no combined Null risk score.
1.417%
FIRST EPSS model v2026.06.15; exploitation probability over 30 days, percentile 0.72778. Missing scores are unknown.
As of · FIRST EPSS
02 / Applicability
The affected context
Affected versions, configuration prerequisites and known exclusions are public. Confirm each one against the deployed service.
automad/automad
source listedECOSYSTEM: introduced 2.0.0-alpha.1; fixed 2.0.0-beta.28
### Summary A Broken Access Control vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to retrieve the bcrypt password hash of every administrator account with a single POST request. The `/_api/user-collection/create-first-user` setup endpoint remains publicly accessible once initial configuration is complete and returns full serialized user data in the JSON response body. ### Details Affected version: - bcrypt hash exposure: `>= 2.0.0-alpha.1, <= 2.0.0-beta.27` - TOTP secret exposure: only `2.0.0-beta.27` ### Impact Any Automad installation reachable over HTTP is at risk no prior account, credentials, or special network position are required to exploit this vulnerability. Potential impacts include: - **Credential hash exposure enabling offline brute-force or dictionary attacks:** bcrypt password hashes for every administrator are returned in a single unauthenticated response. While hashes are not plaintext passwords, the salt embedded in the hash is not secret it is visible in the response. Administrators using common or weak passwords are at direct risk of having their plaintext password recovered. - **TOTP secret exposure:** The TOTP secret is included in the re
03 / Response
What to do next
- vendor patch
The original advisory lists fixed boundaries 2.0.0-beta.28 for automad/automad. Confirm the publisher’s latest guidance.
Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system. GitHub Advisory Database via OSV
- investigate
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Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system. FIRST EPSS
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04 / Limits
What this report cannot establish
- Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected.
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05 / Provenance
Sources you can inspect
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- GHSA-xm76-r88j-vm3g ↗
GitHub Advisory Database via OSV · vendor advisory
Observed . GitHub-origin advisory, CC-BY-4.0; OSV is an aggregate copy, not independent corroboration.
- CVE-2026-45332 ↗
NIST National Vulnerability Database · official catalog
Observed . This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- CVE-2026-45332 ↗
FIRST EPSS · official catalog
Observed . FIRST EPSS; probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, not local compromise. Dataset date/model retained; FIRST services terms apply.
Public revision history
Only published revisions appear here. Routine fetches do not create a material-change event.
- Revision 3 ·
Source facts changed; compare the preserved prior revision.
- Revision 2 ·
Dated EPSS estimate updated; this is not a new disclosure or proof of exploitation.
- Revision 1 ·
First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.