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CVE-2025-42615 — Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup

Affected: CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup

In affected versions, vulnerability-lookup did not track or limit failed One-Time Password (OTP) attempts during Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) verification. An attacker who already knew or guessed a valid username and password could submit an arbitrary number of OTP codes without causing the account to be locked or generating any specific alert for administrators.

This lack of rate-limiting and lockout on OTP failures …