CVE-2020-11037

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.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2020-11037

• Assigner
• security-advisories@github.com

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2020-04-30T23:15:11

• Last Modified Date
• 2020-05-08T15:57:02

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

• Access Vector
• LOCAL

• Access Compatibility
• MEDIUM

• Authentication
• NONE

• Confidentiality Impact
• PARTIAL

• Integrity Impact
• NONE

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 1.9

• Severity
• LOW

• Exploitability Score
• 3.4

• Impact Score
• 2.9

• Version
• 3.1

• Vector String
• CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

• Attack Vector
• LOCAL

• Attack Compatibility
• HIGH

• Privileges Required
• LOW

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• HIGH

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 4.7

• Base Severity
• MEDIUM

• Exploitability Score
• 1

• Impact Score
• 3.6