Authorization Bypass Affecting oauthenticator package, versions [0.12.0, 0.12.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (42nd 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 Learn

Learn about Authorization Bypass vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OAUTHENTICATOR-1047775
  • published2 Dec 2020
  • disclosed2 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-26250  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-285  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade oauthenticator to version 0.12.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass. The deprecated configuration Authenticator.whitelist, which should be transparently mapped to Authenticator.allowed_users with a warning, is instead ignored, resulting in the same behaviour as if it has not been set.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1