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Unauthenticated verification email flooding in CISA Thorium

IdentifiersCVE-2025-35432CWE-770

CVE-2025-35432 is an email abuse and denial-of-service vulnerability in CISA Thorium’s account verification workflow. According to the provided content, Thorium did not rate limit requests that trigger sending account verification email messages. As a result, a remote unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly invoke the verification-email mechanism for a user account that is in a pending-verification state, causing the application to send unlimited verification messages. The issue was fixed in Thorium 1.1.1 by adding a rate limit with a default interval of 10 minutes.

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Successful exploitation allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to abuse Thorium’s verification system to generate unlimited outbound email to pending-verification users. This can result in denial of service against the targeted user through mailbox flooding, operational disruption of the verification process, and mail abuse from the application itself. It may also consume mail infrastructure resources and create reputational or deliverability issues for the sending domain or service.

Mitigation

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If immediate upgrade is not possible, implement compensating controls around the verification-email endpoint, including application-layer or reverse-proxy rate limiting, CAPTCHA or equivalent anti-automation controls, and monitoring/alerting for repeated verification-email requests targeting the same pending account. Restricting repeated resend operations and adding abuse detection on outbound mail volume can also reduce exposure until the fixed version is deployed.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade CISA Thorium to version 1.1.1 or later. The provided content states that version 1.1.1 fixes the issue by introducing rate limiting on verification email requests, with a default limit of 10 minutes.
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