Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kiwitcms package, versions [,12.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-KIWITCMS-3322196
  • published16 Feb 2023
  • disclosed15 Feb 2023
  • creditmosaa404

Introduced: 15 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-25171  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kiwitcms to version 12.0 or higher.

Overview

kiwitcms is a Test Case Management System

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the "Password Reset" page, when an attacker could send a large number of valid emails connected to users in Kiwi TCMS. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible due to missing rate limiting.

Workarounds

Users may install and configure a rate-limiting proxy in front of Kiwi TCMS, such as Nginx, and/or configure rate limits on their email server when possible.

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