FileRise: Rate Limiting Bypass via Username Rotation Enables Unlimited Password Spraying

Description

FileRise is a self-hosted web-based file manager with multi-file upload, editing, and batch operations. Prior to 3.21.0, FileRise tracks failed logins only by the combination of source IP address and username. A remote unauthenticated attacker can rotate usernames to obtain a fresh per-account attempt budget for each name, enabling password spraying from one source beyond the intended limit. Per-user limits still apply and can also produce distinguishable throttling behavior for targeted accounts. The affected surface is AuthModel::getFailedLoginKey(). This issue is fixed in version 3.21.0.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-307 and its CVEs

Affected products

• error311 · FileRise

  • affected < 3.21.0

References (3)

• https://github.com/error311/FileRise/security/advisories/GHSA-5m63-83jf-gwx8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
• https://github.com/error311/FileRise/commit/613fdb28ca25e6dcc9bdfa590757b53935fad8da (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://github.com/error311/FileRise/releases/tag/v3.21.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC

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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2026-69193](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2026-69193.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2026-69193)

Record last updated 15 Oct 2026, 15:04 UTC.