CVE-2026-56272: Flowise Insufficient Password Salt Rounds

# CVE-2026-56272: Flowise Insufficient Password Salt Rounds

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2026-56272-flowise-insufficient-password-salt-rounds · AIR-2026-0490 · closed 2026-03-05

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2026-03-05
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: Flowise
- CVE ids: CVE-2026-56272
- CVSS: 5.6

## Summary

Flowise uses an insufficient default number of bcrypt salt rounds, lowering the cost of brute-force attacks against stored password hashes. Users are advised to update their configuration or patch.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2026-06-24: CVE-2026-56272: Flowise before 3.0.13 uses bcrypt with default salt rounds of 5, providing only 32 iterations instead of the OWASP-recommended… (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-56272)
- 2026-03-05: CVE-2026-56272: Flowise has Insufficient Password Salt Rounds (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x2g5-fvc2-gqvp)

## Sources

- 2026-03-05 GitHub Advisory Database: CVE-2026-56272: Flowise has Insufficient Password Salt Rounds https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x2g5-fvc2-gqvp
- 2026-06-24 NVD: CVE-2026-56272: Flowise before 3.0.13 uses bcrypt with default salt rounds of 5, providing only 32 iterations instead of the OWASP-recommended… https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-56272

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