Timing Attack Affecting django-allauth package, versions [,65.3.0)
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- published1 Jan 2025
- disclosed1 Jan 2025
- creditJulie Rymer
Introduced: 1 Jan 2025
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-208 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade django-allauth to version 65.3.0 or higher.
Overview
django-allauth is an integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack in the AuthenticationBackend._authenticate_by_email method which allows attackers to determine the existence of user accounts by measuring response times during email/password authentication attempts.