Advisory record · GHSA-frch-4w6v-q5xx

lightrag-hku: No Rate Limiting on /login Endpoint Allows Brute-Force Attacks

CVSS 9.1 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0061 · 49th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 22 Sept 2026, 20:40 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
lightrag-hkuPyPI<1.5.51.5.5
Identifiers
GHSA-frch-4w6v-q5xx · CVE-2026-85734 · PYSEC-2026-4062
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-307
Published
22 Sept 2026
Updated
1 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

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

The lightrag-hku package is vulnerable in versions before 1.5.5. Its /login endpoint has no rate limiting, account lockout, or delay after failed attempts. A network-reachable attacker can guess passwords without restriction and, once they recover valid credentials, gain full authenticated access to documents, the knowledge graph, and administrative operations. Upgrade to version 1.5.5 or later, where this is fixed; the source lists no other workaround.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.1 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0061, the 49th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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