Timing Attack Affecting wagtail package, versions [,2.7.3)[2.8.0, 2.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WAGTAIL-568030
  • published1 May 2020
  • disclosed1 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 May 2020

CVE-2020-11037  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wagtail to version 2.7.3, 2.8.2 or higher.

Overview

wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. A potential timing attack exists on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's "Privacy" controls. This is understood to be feasible on a local network, but not on the public internet. Privacy settings that restrict access to pages/documents on a per-user or per-group basis (as opposed to a shared password) are unaffected by this vulnerability.

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