Lack of protection against brute force attacks In vantage6
Description
vantage6 lacks brute-force protection on change password functionality
Impact
If attacker gets access to an authenticated session, they can try to brute-force the user password by using the change password functionality: they can call that route infinitely which will return the message that password is wrong until it is correct
Patches
This issue has been patched in version 4.11.0
Workarounds
None
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Package | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
 pypi | 4.11.0 |
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References
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