CVE-2026-54338: JupyterHub has Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Unbounded Username Logging on Failed Login

August 25, 2026

Invalid input to login resulted in unbounded logging output. Only form-based Authenticators (the default PAM Authenticator, but not the more widely used OAuthenticator) are affected.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-p43p-whwx-q52h
github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/commit/d6dc595f84b7509969686da31d87d6d69e7fce0a
github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/security/advisories/GHSA-p43p-whwx-q52h
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54338

Code Behaviors & Features

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