CVE-2026-56272 Flowise - Insufficient Password Salt Rounds in Bcrypt Hashing

Medium 5.6 Published Updated

Flowise uses weak bcrypt salt rounds, allowing attackers to crack password hashes faster and potentially compromise user accounts.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2026-56272?

CVE-2026-56272 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Flowiseai Flowise, published on 24 Jun 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Flowise before 3.0.13 uses bcrypt with default salt rounds of 5, providing only 32 iterations instead of the OWASP-recommended minimum of 10 rounds. Attackers can crack password hashes approximately 30 times faster with modern GPU hardware, potentially compromising all user accounts in a database breach scenario.

Weakness: CWE-916

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-56272?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including flowise. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
flowise npmAll versions3.0.13
flowise npmAll versions3.0.13

Products include Flowiseai Flowise.

How do I fix CVE-2026-56272?

Upgrade flowise to 3.0.13 or later.

Is CVE-2026-56272 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-56272 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Flowiseai Flowise vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-x2g5-fvc2-gqvp.

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