GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-jqr8-q455-xx45 TYPO3 Brute Force Protection Bypass in backend login
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- typo3/cms
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
- Reviewed
- 2024-05-30
Affected packages
• Packagist typo3/cms: >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.14 → fixed in 6.2.14
• Packagist typo3/cms: >= 7.0.0, < 7.3.1 → fixed in 7.3.1
Description
The backend login has a basic brute force protection implementation which pauses for 5 seconds if wrong credentials are given. This pause however could be bypassed by forging a special request, making brute force attacks on backend editor credentials more feasible.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/commit/0b67290bbd941c07b0101bbfd6c7aadcbb93c75c web
- https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/commit/0f3fb37674688aba5a44ca6f5df7f8a327a5b5f6 web
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/typo3/cms/2015-07-01-5.yaml web
- https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3 package
- https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2015-006 web
- https://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-core/typo3-core-sa-2015-006 web