GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-256q-hx8w-xcqx Silverstripe Framework user enumeration via timing attack on login and password reset forms
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- silverstripe/framework
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-204
- Reviewed
- 2025-04-10
Affected packages
• Packagist silverstripe/framework: >= 4.0.0, < 5.3.23 → fixed in 5.3.23
Description
Impact
User enumeration is possible by performing a timing attack on the login or password reset pages with user credentials.
This was originally disclosed in https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/ss-2017-005/ for CMS 3 but was not patched in CMS 4+
References
• https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/ss-2017-005
• https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/ss-2025-001
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-204 Observable Response Discrepancy weakness
References
- https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/security/advisories/GHSA-256q-hx8w-xcqx web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12849 advisory
- https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/pull/11681 web
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/silverstripe/framework/SS-2025-001.yaml web
- https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework package
- https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/ss-2017-005 web
- https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/ss-2025-001 web