HomeBox is a home inventory and organization system. Prior to 0.27.0, the POST /api/v1/users/login endpoint performs password-hash verification only when the submitted username matches an existing account, while unknown usernames return immediately. Although both paths return the same 401 unauthorized response, the processing-time discrepancy allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to distinguish registered email addresses; rate limiting only reduces the number of attempts per window. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.0.
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| Description | HomeBox is a home inventory and organization system. Prior to 0.27.0, the POST /api/v1/users/login endpoint performs password-hash verification only when the submitted username matches an existing account, while unknown usernames return immediately. Although both paths return the same 401 unauthorized response, the processing-time discrepancy allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to distinguish registered email addresses; rate limiting only reduces the number of attempts per window. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.0. | |
| Title | HomeBox: Timing Side-Channel in Login Endpoint Allows User Enumeration via Bcrypt Hashing Delay | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-204 CWE-208 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-11-05T16:01:52.991Z
Reserved: 2026-09-03T16:37:49.262Z
Link: CVE-2026-85286
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-11-05T16:17:50.463
Modified: 2026-11-05T16:17:50.463
Link: CVE-2026-85286
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