Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting rdiffweb package, versions [,2.5.0a7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-RDIFFWEB-3040874
  • published7 Oct 2022
  • disclosed6 Oct 2022
  • creditNehalr777

Introduced: 6 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-3273  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rdiffweb to version 2.5.0a7 or higher.

Overview

rdiffweb is an A web interface to rdiff-backup repositories.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to missing a limit on the password change feature which allows an attacker to bruteforce the old password and set a new password for the account.

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