OpenReception doesn't rate limit passphrase login attempts
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-307.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| open-reception | appointment-booking-software | before 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 | Patch available | CNA |
- appointment-booking-software Vendoropen-reception Affected before 1.0.2 Fixed in 1.0.2 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA appointment-booking-software (open-reception) Fixed in 1.0.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-48084
References
More open-reception vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-35529 OpenReception vulnerable to unauthenticated staff crypto poisoning that breaks E2E recipient directory CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2026-35528 OpenReception: WebAuthn passkey injection allows account takeover CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-35526 OpenReception has unauthenticated GLOBAL_ADMIN account creation post-bootstrap CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-35527 OpenReception: Tenant admin self-promotes to GLOBAL_ADMIN CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2026-79990 Host header poisoning in OpenReception enables account takeover CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3
- TI-2026-35522 OpenReception vulnerable to stored click-triggered XSS via javascript: tenant links rendered into patient-facing footer CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
Sources
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