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LibreNMS vulnerable to rate limiting bypass on login page

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 17, 2023 in librenms/librenms • Updated Nov 20, 2023

Package

composer librenms/librenms (Composer)

Affected versions

< 23.11.0

Patched versions

23.11.0

Description

Summary

Application is using two login methods and one of them is using GET request for authentication. There is no rate limiting security feature at GET request or backend is not validating that.

PoC

Go to /?username=admin&password=password&submit=
Capture request in Burpsuite intruder and add payload marker at password parameter value.
Start the attack after adding your password list
We have added 74 passwords
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Screenshot 2023-11-06 at 8 55 19 PM

Impact

An attacker can Bruteforce user accounts and using GET request for authentication is not recommended because certain web servers logs all requests in old logs which can also store victim user credentials.

References

@murrant murrant published to librenms/librenms Nov 17, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 17, 2023
Reviewed Nov 17, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 17, 2023
Last updated Nov 20, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

CVE ID

CVE-2023-46745

GHSA ID

GHSA-rq42-58qf-v3qx

Source code

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