Vulnerability CVE-2019-15929
Published: 2019-10-24   Modified: 2019-11-05

Description:
In Craft CMS through 3.1.7, the elevated session password prompt was not being rate limited like normal login forms, leading to the possibility of a brute force attempt on them.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Craft CMS Rate Limiting / Brute Force
Mohammed Abdul R...
30.10.2019

Type:

CWE-640

 (Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None

 References:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155012/Craft-CMS-Rate-Limiting-Brute-Force.html
https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/develop/CHANGELOG-v3.md#317---2019-01-31
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