Brute Force Affecting craftcms/cms package, versions <3.1.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-CRAFTCMSCMS-474303
  • published 24 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 24 Oct 2019
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade craftcms/cms to version 3.1.7 or higher.

Overview

craftcms/cms is a content management system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Brute Force. The elevated session password prompt used within Craft CMS is not rate limited like normal login forms, leading to the possibility of a brute force attack.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

9.8 critical