Django-Anymail prone to a timing attack · CVE-2018-6596 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Django-Anymail prone to a timing attack

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 12, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

django-anymail (pip)

Affected versions

< 1.2.1

Patched versions

1.2.1

Description

webhooks/base.py in Anymail (aka django-anymail) before 1.2.1 is prone to a timing attack vulnerability on the WEBHOOK_AUTHORIZATION secret, which allows remote attackers to post arbitrary e-mail tracking events.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 12, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.1

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N