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User enumeration In silverstripe/framework

Description

Silverstripe Framework user enumeration via timing attack on login and password reset forms

Impact

User enumeration is possible by performing a timing attack on the login or password reset pages with user credentials.

This was originally disclosed in https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/ss-2017-005/ for CMS 3 but was not patched in CMS 4+

References

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Component
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. NVD-2017-128492. GHSA-256q-hx8w-xcqx3. GCVE-GHSA-256q-hx8w-xcqx

References

1. https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/security/advisories/GHSA-256q-hx8w-xcqx2. https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/pull/116813. https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/silverstripe/framework/SS-2025-001.yaml4. https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/ss-2017-0055. https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/ss-2025-001

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