bluewave-labs Checkmate up to 3.9.0 Upload Middleware upload.ts resource consumption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in bluewave-labs Checkmate up to 3.9.0. The affected element is an unknown function of the file server/src/api/middleware/upload.ts of the component Upload Middleware. The manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-55241. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in bluewave-labs Checkmate up to 3.9.0. Affected is some unknown functionality of the file server/src/api/middleware/upload.ts of the component Upload Middleware. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. Prior to 3.9.1, the public POST /api/v1/auth/register route in server/src/api/routes/authRoutes.ts passes multipart profileImage uploads through in-memory Multer parsing before registration validation, without file-size, file-count, or MIME-type limits in server/src/api/middleware/upload.ts. An unauthenticated attacker can submit concurrent oversized files that are buffered before invalid registration or invite-token checks reject the request, exhausting memory and crashing or destabilizing the backend. This issue is fixed in version 3.9.1.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-55241 since 06/16/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 3.9.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• bluewave-labs

Name

• Checkmate

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9.0

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• Product: https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/

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