CVE-2026-70590

medium

Description

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. Prior to 6.54.1, any staff-level user was able to leak the hashed passwords of other staff users through the Ghost Admin API. An offline password-guessing attack against the hashes could lead to account takeover if successful, but Device Verification should have prevented an attacker from logging in with a recovered password. Depending on the database used, leaked hashes may not have had the correct casing for all characters, increasing the difficulty of a password-guessing attack. This issue is fixed in version 6.54.1.

References

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-jm22-3w23-5q7w

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.54.1

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/29628

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/63c31fad7e473caa62d8fbb4651a04a2a62b5d00

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-04

Updated: 2026-08-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.8

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

Severity: Medium