CVE-2020-11037

Description

In Wagtail before versions 2.7.3 and 2.8.2, a potential timing attack exists on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtails "Privacy" controls. This password check is performed through a character-by-character string comparison, and so an attacker who is able to measure the time taken by this check to a high degree of accuracy could potentially use timing differences to gain knowledge of the password. This is [understood to be feasible on a local network, but not on the public internet](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/iAaq0pvHXuA/fpUuwjK3i2wJ).Privacy settings that restrict access to pages/documents on a per-user or per-group basis (as opposed to a shared password) are unaffected by this vulnerability.This has been patched in 2.7.3, 2.8.2, 2.9.

Risk Information

Base Score

4.7

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.052

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-11037 are fixed in Python-wagtail 2.7.3	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-11037 are fixed in Python-wagtail 2.8.2	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-11037 are fixed in Python-wagtail 2.9	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-11037 are fixed in Python-wagtail for linux 2.7.3	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-11037 are fixed in Python-wagtail for linux 2.8.2	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-11037 are fixed in Python-wagtail for linux 2.9	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234