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CVE-2021-3663
Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in firefly-iii/firefly-iii
Medium5.3EPSS 0.71%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- @huntrdev
Description
firefly-iii is vulnerable to Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
Timeline
ID reserved
By @huntrdev
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| @huntrdevCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.71% · top 46% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
firefly-iii · firefly-iii/firefly-iii
- affected unspecified – ≤ 5.5.12
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistgrumpydictator/firefly-iiiGHSA-56cx-wf47-hx7w (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/497bdf6d-7dba-49c3-8011-1c64dfbb3380 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/commit/afc9f4b7ebc8a240c85864a6e1abda62bfeefae8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-56cx-wf47-hx7w (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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