Sorcery up to 0.14.x Password Authentication excessive authentication

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Sorcery up to 0.14.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Password Authentication. Such manipulation leads to excessive authentication. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2020-11052. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Sorcery up to 0.14.x. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Password Authentication. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a excessive authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-307. The product does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within a short time frame, making it more susceptible to brute force attacks. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In Sorcery before 0.15.0, there is a brute force vulnerability when using password authentication via Sorcery. The brute force protection submodule will prevent a brute force attack for the defined lockout period, but once expired, protection will not be re-enabled until a user or malicious actor logs in successfully. This does not affect users that do not use the built-in brute force protection submodule, nor users that use permanent account lockout. This has been patched in 0.15.0.

The weakness was published 05/07/2020 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-11052 since 03/30/2020. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1110.001.

Upgrading to version 0.15.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Sorcery

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14

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• Product: https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/

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