Authentication Weakness Affecting keystone package, versions <0.3.16


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:keystone:20151204
  • published6 Dec 2015
  • disclosed4 Dec 2015
  • creditGreg Meyer

Introduced: 4 Dec 2015

CVE-2015-9240  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

Invalid email addresses can be mistakenly matched during sign-in. This affects the User record to be fetched from the DB. Correct password for that User is still required to authenticate.

Recommendations

Upgrade to version 0.3.16 or greater.

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CVSS Scores

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