CVE-2026-55164

medium

Description

Lemur manages TLS certificate creation. Prior to 1.9.2, lemur.users.service.update assigned a replacement password directly to users.password, while lemur/users/models.py registered User.hash_password only for the before_insert event. Because no before_update listener ran, administrator-initiated password changes through PUT /api/1/users/ were committed as plaintext. The affected user could no longer authenticate normally because bcrypt verification received an unhashed value. A database, backup, replica, query-log, or administrative read compromise exposed immediately usable credentials without offline cracking. The fix registers hashing for before_update and avoids rehashing values that already have a bcrypt prefix. This issue is fixed in version 1.9.2.

References

https://github.com/Netflix/lemur/security/advisories/GHSA-q437-g7fv-2jvv

https://github.com/Netflix/lemur/releases/tag/v1.9.2

https://github.com/Netflix/lemur/commit/221c6d7275ac667bb8898ab48d2b96926a89c1c4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-18

Updated: 2026-08-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium