CVE-2026-41588
Inducer Relate ≤ 2026-04-17
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2026-41588 is a critical-severity Observable Timing Discrepancy (CWE-208) vulnerability in Inducer Relate. Its CVSS base score is 9.0 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Account Discovery (T1087); ranked at the 30th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to IA-6 (Authentication Feedback) and SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-28656
Vulnerability Data
RELATE is a web-based courseware package. Prior to commit 2f68e16, there is a timing attack vulnerability in course/auth.py — check_sign_in_key(). This issue has been patched via commit 2f68e16.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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- 1 hardening rule · 1 OS baseline
V11.2.4
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Obscures authentication feedback so that success/failure differences are not observable to attackers.
Developer testing can include timing analysis or side-channel test cases that reveal observable timing discrepancies.
Requires error messages to avoid revealing exploitable details, directly stopping observable response discrepancies.
Engineering principles can mandate constant-time algorithms and side-channel resistance so timing discrepancies are never introduced.
Requiring approved cryptographic modules and algorithms implicitly demands implementations free of observable timing leaks.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly require constant-time implementations that eliminate observable timing discrepancies.