CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-111874

LowCVSS 3.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.48%

40th percentile - higher than 40% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw has been found in OpenCATS 0.10.0 in the processLogin function of modules/careers/CareersUI.php (Career Portal component). Manipulation of the applyToJobSubAction argument causes improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts, allowing remote exploitation. The attack requires high complexity and exploitability is described as difficult, but the exploit has been published and may be used.

Risk Assessment

Lack of effective login attempt throttling in the career portal may enable brute-force attacks against candidate accounts. Since the exploit is publicly available, the risk of unauthorized access is increased.

Recommendation

Install the patch named 1cf4fa3ee9054314b023be79d404078645c22ade. Additionally, consider applying request throttling at the network, reverse-proxy or web-server layer, as recommended by the project maintainer.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw has been found in OpenCATS 0.10.0. Affected is the function processLogin of the file modules/careers/CareersUI.php of the component Career Portal. This manipulation of the argument applyToJobSubAction causes improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. A high degree of complexity is needed for the attack. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been published and may be used. Patch name: 1cf4fa3ee9054314b023be79d404078645c22ade. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue. The project maintainer explains: "Candidates will now need to authenticate each time they access the Career Portal and successfully complete the CAPTCHA as part of that authentication flow. The authenticated candidate identity is now maintained server-side rather than relying on the previous persistent client-side cats…cw cookie mechanism. Application-level rate limiting is deliberately not in scope for this change. In my view, request throttling and brute-force protection of that kind are better applied at the network, reverse-proxy or web-server layer, where they can be configured appropriately for each deployment without OpenCATS having to implement and maintain its own rate-limiting framework. I'll update the online documentation to that effect."

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