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Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in Sorcery

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 2, 2020 in Sorcery/sorcery • Updated May 16, 2023

Package

bundler sorcery (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 0.15.0

Patched versions

0.15.0

Description

Impact

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.

Patches

Patched as of version 0.15.0.

Workarounds

Currently no workarounds, other than monkey patching the authenticate method provided by Sorcery or upgrading to version 0.15.0.

References

@joshbuker joshbuker published to Sorcery/sorcery May 2, 2020
Reviewed May 7, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 7, 2020
Last updated May 16, 2023

Severity

High
8.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-11052

GHSA ID

GHSA-jc8m-cxhj-668x

Source code

Credits

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