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Magento 2 Community Edition DoS vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 2, 2024

Package

composer magento/community-edition (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 2.1.0, < 2.1.18
>= 2.2.0, < 2.2.9
>= 2.3.0, < 2.3.2

Patched versions

2.1.18
2.2.9
2.3.2

Description

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in Magento 2.1 prior to 2.1.18, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.9, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.2. By abusing insufficient brute-forcing defenses in the token exchange protocol, an unauthenticated attacker could disrupt transactions between the Magento merchant and PayPal.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 2, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Jul 17, 2023
Last updated Feb 2, 2024

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2019-7928

GHSA ID

GHSA-hrg3-4q56-p2q5

Source code

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