High 8.2Published Mar 9, 2026

CVE-2025-68402FreshRSS has an authentication bypass due to truncated bcrypt hash [edge branch]

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 12:10 AM ET)

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FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. From 57e1a37 - 00f2f04, the lengths of the nonce was changed from 40 chars to 64. password_verify() is currently being called with a constructed string (SHA-256 nonce + part of a bcrypt hash) instead of the raw user password. Due to bcrypt’s 72-byte input truncation, this causes password verification to succeed even when the user enters an incorrect password. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.27.2-dev (476e57b). The issue was only present in the edge branch and never in a stable release.

CVSS: 8.2 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-287
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Mar 9, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

FreshRSS FreshRSS freshrss:freshrss (from the name)	before 476e57b04646416e24e24c56133c9fadf9e52b95	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-pcq9-mq6m-mvmp	x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8061	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8320	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/commit/476e57b04646416e24e24c56133c9fadf9e52b95	x-refsource-misc

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