CVE-2025-35432
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BaseFortify

Publication date: 2025-09-17

Last updated on: 2025-09-23

Assigner: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) U.S. Civilian Government

Description
CISA Thorium does not rate limit requests to send account verification email messages. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send unlimited messages to a user who is pending verification. Fixed in 1.1.1 by adding a rate limit set by default to 10 minutes.
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Published
2025-09-17
Last Modified
2025-09-23
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2026-06-22
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2025-09-17
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-21
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CVE-2025-35432
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cisa thorium 1.1.0
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CWE ID Description
CWE-400 The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability in CISA Thorium allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to send unlimited account verification email messages to a user who is pending verification because the system does not rate limit these requests. This means an attacker can abuse the feature to send excessive emails until the issue is fixed. The problem was fixed in version 1.1.1 by adding a default rate limit of 10 minutes between such requests.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can lead to abuse where an attacker sends a large number of verification emails to a user, potentially causing email spam, annoyance, or denial of service to the user's email inbox. It may also increase resource usage on the server handling these requests. However, it does not directly impact confidentiality or integrity of data.

Mitigation Strategies

Upgrade CISA Thorium to version 1.1.1 or later, which includes a default rate limit of 10 minutes on sending account verification email messages to prevent abuse by remote unauthenticated attackers.

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