CVE-2026-86055

Part-DB: Password Reset Link Poisoning via Host Header Injection leads to pre-authentication Account Takeover

High 8.7

Part-DB is an open source inventory management system for electronic components. Prior to version 2.13.3, Part-DB builds the absolute URL of the password-reset link it emails to a user from the client-supplied HTTP Host header, with no trusted-host validation. An unauthenticated attacker who submits a forgot-password request for a known account while sending a spoofed Host header causes Part-DB to email that account a reset link whose hostname is attacker-controlled, while still embedding the genuine reset token. When the victim opens the link (or an automated inbound mail-security scanner dereferences it), the valid token is disclosed to the attacker, who replays it against the real instance to set a new password and take over the account. Because the seeded admin account can be targeted, this yields full pre-authentication administrative account takeover. This issue has been patched in version 2.13.3.

Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
2026-10-23
Updated
2026-10-23
Reserved
2026-09-04

Scores

SourceCVSSScoreSeverityVector
GitHub_M4.08.7HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Weaknesses

Affected

VendorProductVersions
Part-DB Part-DB-server < 2.13.3 (affected)

References

Full CVE JSON record (5.2)

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