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

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.43% (75th percentile)
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NVD
4.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ACCESSCONTROL-40155
  • published 24 Feb 2016
  • disclosed 30 Sep 2014
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 30 Sep 2014

CVE-2012-5507 Open this link in a new tab
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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.