Excess password guesses via lockout race
Published Aug 18, 2026 · Updated Aug 18, 2026
Authentication throttling in Zabbix before 6.0.47, 7.0.28, and 7.4.12 allows remote attackers extra password guesses via concurrent failed logins. The Frontend and API login lockout logic does not properly synchronize simultaneous unsuccessful authentication requests, so overlapping failures are undercounted in the block counter. Reachability requires access to a Zabbix login endpoint and expands the online password-guessing window, with no published evidence that the flaw by itself grants code execution or configuration changes.
Summary
What happened
Authentication throttling in Zabbix before 6.0.47, 7.0.28, and 7.4.12 allows remote attackers extra password guesses via concurrent failed logins. The Frontend and API login lockout logic does not properly synchronize simultaneous unsuccessful authentication requests, so overlapping failures are undercounted in the block counter. Reachability requires access to a Zabbix login endpoint and expands the online password-guessing window, with no published evidence that the flaw by itself grants code execution or configuration changes.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-1199
- Published
- Aug 18, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 18, 2026
- Vendor
- Zabbix
- Product
- Zabbix
- Classifications
- CWE-362, T1110.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 18, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 18, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.0.0 <=6.0.46 changes=[{"at":"6.0.47","status":"unaffected"}]
- Affected versionversion=7.0.0 <=7.0.27 changes=[{"at":"7.0.28","status":"unaffected"}]
- Affected versionversion=7.4.0 <=7.4.11 changes=[{"at":"7.4.12","status":"unaffected"}]
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