Timing Attack Affecting accesscontrol package, versions [3.0,3.0.5]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (76th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ACCESSCONTROL-40155
  • published24 Feb 2016
  • disclosed30 Sept 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Sep 2014

CVE-2012-5507  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

accesscontrol is a Security framework for Zope2. AccessControl/AuthEncoding.py in Zope before 2.13.19, as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1, allows remote attackers to obtain passwords via vectors involving timing discrepancies in password validation.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1