Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting django-two-factor-auth package, versions [,1.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGOTWOFACTORAUTH-575703
  • published12 Jul 2020
  • disclosed12 Jul 2020
  • creditNick Catalano, Ben Weissmann

Introduced: 12 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15105  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade django-two-factor-auth to version 1.12 or higher.

Overview

django-two-factor-auth is a Complete Two-Factor Authentication for Django

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials. It stores the user's password in clear text in the user session (base64-encoded).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1