{"id":"CVE-2024-52586","aliases":["EUVD-2024-46147","GHSA-pvxr-39g3-m28c"],"status":"published","title":"eLabFTW MFA bypass","description":"eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. A vulnerability has been found starting in version 4.6.0 and prior to version 5.1.0 that allows an attacker to bypass eLabFTW's built-in multifactor authentication mechanism. An attacker who can authenticate locally (by knowing or guessing the password of a user) can thus log in regardless of MFA requirements. This does not affect MFA that are performed by single sign-on services. Users are advised to upgrade to at least version 5.1.9 to receive a fix.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00212,"percentile":0.11617,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-288","CWE-303"],"published":"2024-12-09T18:38:42Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:04Z","products":[{"vendor":"elabftw","product":"elabftw"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/security/advisories/GHSA-pvxr-39g3-m28c","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Mitigation","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/52xxx/CVE-2024-52586.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52586","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2024-52586","title":"eLabFTW MFA bypass","description":"eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. 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