Information Exposure Affecting vantage6 package, versions [,3.8.0rc3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-VANTAGE6-3336161
  • published 1 Mar 2023
  • disclosed 28 Feb 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade vantage6 to version 3.8.0rc3 or higher.

Overview

vantage6 is a vantage6 command line interface

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure such that, if a wrong password is entered several times, the user account is blocked temporarily. This way an attacker can find out which usernames are valid.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

6.5 medium