Improper Authentication Affecting zulip-botserver package, versions [,0.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ZULIPBOTSERVER-3166290
  • published9 Dec 2022
  • disclosed9 Dec 2022
  • creditRobert Hönig

Introduced: 9 Dec 2022

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade zulip-botserver to version 0.5.0 or higher.

Overview

zulip-botserver is a Zulip's Flask server for running bots

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication due to validating tokens after accepting messages which can allow an attacker to perform user-impersonation.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1