# Portainer CE allows username enumeration through authentication response timing

Advisory record · `GHSA-87x6-8m9v-g8c2`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-87x6-8m9v-g8c2` · `CVE-2024-29296` · `GO-2026-6619`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.3 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-286](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/286.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-286](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-286.md)
- **Published:** 10 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 10 Apr 2024, 15:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `github.com/portainer/portainer` (Go): affected `<0.6.1-0.20240417040827-48bc7d0d92f0`; fixed in `0.6.1-0.20240417040827-48bc7d0d92f0`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Portainer CE (github.com/portainer/portainer) versions before 0.6.1-0.20240417040827-48bc7d0d92f0 are affected. A remote unauthenticated attacker can measure differences in authentication response time to determine whether a given username is valid. Upgrade to 0.6.1-0.20240417040827-48bc7d0d92f0 or later. The source gives few details beyond this.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 5.3 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`, from GitHub Advisory Database

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.013, the 69th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:12 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:12 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-87x6-8m9v-g8c2)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-87x6-8m9v-g8c2](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-87x6-8m9v-g8c2)
- [OSV: GHSA-87x6-8m9v-g8c2](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-87x6-8m9v-g8c2)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29296>
- <https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/11736>
- <https://github.com/portainer/portainer/pull/11589>
- <https://github.com/portainer/portainer/commit/48bc7d0d92f038e04a72c1e0585bc325eb63a9e6>
- <https://github.com/ThaySolis/CVE-2024-29296>
- <https://github.com/portainer/portainer>
- <https://github.com/portainer/portainer/releases/tag/2.19.5>
- <https://github.com/portainer/portainer/releases/tag/2.20.2>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-87x6-8m9v-g8c2>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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