CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-11037

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2020-04-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-04-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-208, CWE-362

Description

In Wagtail before versions 2.7.3 and 2.8.2, a potential timing attack exists on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's "Privacy" controls. This password check is performed through a character-by-character string comparison, and so an attacker who is able to measure the time taken by this check to a high degree of accuracy could potentially use timing differences to gain knowledge of the password. This is understood to be feasible on a local network, but not on the public internet. Privacy settings that restrict access to pages/documents on a per-user or per-group basis (as opposed to a shared password) are unaffected by this vulnerability. This has been patched in 2.7.3, 2.8.2, 2.9.

Affected configurations

• torchbox wagtail (>= 2.7 < 2.7.3) • torchbox wagtail (>= 2.8 < 2.8.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References