7.5highHigh
CVE-2026-55241
Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. Prior to 3.9.1, the public POST /api/v1/auth/register route in server/src/api/routes/authRoutes.ts passes multipart profileImage uploads through in-memory Multer parsing before registration validation, without file-size, file-count, or MIME-type limits in server/src/api/middleware/upload.ts. An unauthenticated attacker can submit concurrent oversized files that are buffered before invalid registration or invite-token checks reject the request, exhausting memory and crashing or destabilizing the backend. This issue is fixed in version 3.9.1.
What the metrics mean
- It is reachable over a network, without needing local access.
- For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
- To exploit it, no account is needed.
- Beyond that, no action by a user is required.
Scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Assigned by
- security-advisories@github.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-21
- Last modified
- 2026-08-25
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/commit/091c36cbf338b673110b0806d76df26d52516468
- https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/releases/tag/v3.9.1
- https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/security/advisories/GHSA-9xvg-x28f-m78m
- https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/security/advisories/GHSA-9xvg-x28f-m78m