High severity · published Aug 6, 2026
CVE-2026-48084
OpenReception doesn't rate limit passphrase login attempts
7.4
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
OpenReception's appointment booking software provides an end-to-end encrypted appointment booking platform. Versions prior to 1.0.2 don't throttle failed passphrase login attempts. An attacker can submit unlimited wrong passphrase guesses against any known email address, capped only by the Argon2 verification cost (about 100 milliseconds per attempt on the tested host, giving 10 attempts per second sustained). The same backend implements a working per-account throttle on the WebAuthn challenge endpoint, which returns HTTP 429 after roughly 19 attempts. The passphrase branch simply does not invoke that throttle, leaving a supported high-value login path unprotected against credential stuffing and dictionary attacks. The asymmetry confirms this is an oversight rather than a design choice. The throttle infrastructure exists, is wired into the same auth backend, and works on the WebAuthn path. The passphrase branch in `/api/auth/login` was not updated to record failed attempts. Combined with the application's minimum-passphrase policy (12 characters, no entropy or dictionary checks), accounts using common base patterns such as `Spring2026!XX` or words from a leak corpus are realistically reachable in days on a single CPU, hours on a small GPU farm. Version 1.0.2 patches the issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AP
appointment-booking-software · open-reception
< 1.0.2 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48084
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48084
github.com
https://github.com/open-reception/appointment-booking-software/commit/b283dbb670e09112299fb0cf89f3cb054ecc1700
github.com
https://github.com/open-reception/appointment-booking-software/security/advisories/GHSA-hhg5-xmjg-3m93
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