Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting weblate package, versions [,4.14.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-WEBLATE-5950405
  • published 9 Oct 2023
  • disclosed 1 Oct 2023
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 1 Oct 2023

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Weblate to version 4.14.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the weblate/accounts/pipeline.py and weblate/accounts/views.py endpoints, due to missing rate limiting for the 'Remove Account' function.

Note:

This issue can lead to massive mailings.

References

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

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