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CVE-2026-85286

HomeBox: Timing Side-Channel in Login Endpoint Allows User Enumeration via Bcrypt Hashing Delay

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Severity and exploitation

Not in CISA KEV

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KEV checked 14/11/2026, 22:20:30 UTC
GitHub_M · CVSS:3.1 · 3.7
Assessment vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity

low3.7

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Known exploitation

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Public exploit

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Remediation

Fix status not established

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What this means

HomeBox, a home inventory system, has a timing side-channel vulnerability in its login endpoint, affecting versions prior to 0.27.0. An unauthenticated remote attacker can enumerate user accounts by measuring the delay in bcrypt hashing. The issue allows distinguishing registered email addresses despite returning the same 401 response.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

Attack conditions

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Affected versions

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< 0.27.0

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Public exploit evidence

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Original source description

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HomeBox is a home inventory and organization system. Prior to 0.27.0, the POST /api/v1/users/login endpoint performs password-hash verification only when the submitted username matches an existing account, while unknown usernames return immediately. Although both paths return the same 401 unauthorized response, the processing-time discrepancy allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to distinguish registered email addresses; rate limiting only reduces the number of attempts per window. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.0.

References

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sysadminsmedia/homebox · security/advisories/GHSA-4p8r-vm9v-c9pm
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sysadminsmedia/homebox · commit 66809ce
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sysadminsmedia/homebox · releases/tag/v0.27.0
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CVE-2026-85286

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-204 ↗

CWE-204: Observable Response Discrepancy

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CWE-208 ↗

CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy

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2026-11-05
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Additional data publisher

2026-11-09

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-85286

    Observed 2026-11-09T17:02:03.652Z · upstream updated 2026-11-09T16:51:32.074Z

    Prioritization updated

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        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
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      {
        "name": "Automatable",
        "value": "no"
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      {
        "name": "Technical Impact",
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