In Wagtail before versions 2.7.2 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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2020-04-30T22:20:12

Updated: 2020-04-30T22:20:12

Reserved: 2020-03-30T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-11037

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-04-30T23:15:11.887

Modified: 2020-05-08T15:57:02.020


Link: CVE-2020-11037

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