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CVE-2026-61609: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in pterodactyl panel

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-61609cvecve-2026-61609cwe-770
Published: 07/28/2026 (07/28/2026, 15:45:57 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: pterodactyl
Product: panel

Description

Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel. From 1.7.0 until 1.13.0, the authentication rate limiter defined in RouteServiceProvider::configureRateLimiting() applied a single global bucket to the login and two-factor checkpoint endpoints instead of keying by IP or account: the fall-through Limit::perMinute(10) covering POST /auth/login and POST /auth/login/checkpoint omitted ->by(), so Laravel derived a constant cache key (md5('authentication')) shared by every request. An unauthenticated attacker sending roughly ten requests per minute from a single IP, most cheaply against the checkpoint endpoint (which has no reCAPTCHA), exhausts the shared counter and causes HTTP 429 for every user attempting to log in or complete two-factor authentication, a panel-wide authentication denial of service that also locks out administrators. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.

CVSS v3.1

Score 7.5high

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-07-10T17:36:04.597Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a68d75f9c2644c7f8e050ba

Added to database: 07/28/2026, 16:22:55 UTC

Last updated: 07/28/2026, 21:01:56 UTC

Views: 4

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