CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-56338 — Capgo security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.9

Capgo before 12.128.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the /auth/v1/otp endpoint that prevents email verification for two-factor authentication due to captcha validation failures. Authenticated users cannot complete 2FA enrollment as the backend consistently returns HTTP 500 errors with captcha verification process failed messages, blocking access to security controls.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.9 (4.0)
Published
2026-06-24
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-703

Affected products

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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