CVE-2026-100501: Pawelmalak Flame

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Flame through 2.4.0 contains an improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts vulnerability in the POST /api/auth login endpoint that allows unauthenticated attackers to brute-force the admin password. Attackers can submit unlimited password guesses without rate limiting, attempt counters, lockouts, or delays to gain full administrator access and modify application configuration.

Affected products

• Pawelmalak Flame: up to and including 2.4.0

Published 2026-09-25. Last modified 2026-10-05.