CVE-2025-54791

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.08%

OMERO.web displays unecessary user information when requesting password reset

Published: 8/13/2025Modified: 8/27/2025

Description

### Background If an error occurred when resetting a user's password using the ``Forgot Password`` option in OMERO.web, the error message displayed on the Web page can disclose information about the user. ### Impact OMERO.web before 5.29.1 ### Patches User should upgrade to 5.29.2 or higher ### Workarounds Disable the ``Forgot password`` option in OMERO.web using the ``omero.web.show_forgot_password`` configuration property[^1]. Thanks to Christopher Youd who reported the issue. Open an issue in [omero-web](https://github.com/ome/omero-web) Email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) [^1]: https://omero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/sysadmins/config.html#omero.web.show_forgot_password

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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