CVE-2025-53544
Trilium Notes is Vulnerable to Brute-force Protection Bypass via Initial Sync Seed Retrieval
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Trilium Notes is Vulnerable to Brute-force Protection Bypass via Initial Sync Seed Retrieval
Trilium Notes is an open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases. In versions below 0.97.0, a brute-force protection bypass in the initial sync seed retrieval endpoint allows unauthenticated attackers to guess the login password without triggering rate limiting. Trilium is a single-user app without a username requirement, and brute-force protection bypass makes exploitation much more feasible. Multiple features provided by Trilium (e.g. MFA, share notes, custom request handler) indicate that Trilium can be exposed to the internet. This is fixed in version 0.97.0.
Reserved 2025-07-02 | Published 2025-08-05 | Updated 2025-08-05 | Assigner GitHub_MCWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
github.com/...rilium/security/advisories/GHSA-hw5p-ff75-327r
github.com/...mmits/04c8f8a1234e8c9f4a87da187180375227b21223
github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/releases/tag/v0.97.0
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