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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-28510 EUVD-2026-27311

elabftw allows MFA bypass during login

Published May 5, 2026 · Updated May 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook. In elabftw versions through 5.4.1, the login flow did not reliably preserve the multi-factor authentication state across authentication steps. Under certain conditions, an attacker with valid primary credentials could complete authentication with an attacker-controlled TOTP secret and bypass the additional factor. This could result in unauthorized account access. This issue is fixed in version 5.4.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
elabftw elabftw = 5.4.1 —

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