Missing rate limit in Authentication in bookwyrm
CVE-2022-35925

5.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Bookwyrm-social

Status
Bookwyrm
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 August 2022

What is CVE-2022-35925?

BookWyrm is a social network for tracking reading. Versions prior to 0.4.5 were found to lack rate limiting on authentication views which allows brute-force attacks. This issue has been patched in version 0.4.5. Admins with existing instances will need to update their nginx.conf file that was created when the instance was set up. Users are advised advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may update their nginx.conf files with the changes manually.

Affected Version(s)

bookwyrm < 0.4.5

References

https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/security/advi...
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https://huntr.dev/bounties/ebee593d-3fd0-4985-bf5e-7e7927...
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https://www.github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/commit/7b...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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