kiwitcms/kiwi · Security
Denial of service vulnerability on Password reset page
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-7j9h-3jxf-3vrf
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-25171
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Impact
Previous versions of Kiwi TCMS do not impose rate limits which makes it easier to attempt denial-of-service attacks against the Password reset page. An attacker could potentially send a large number of emails if they know the email addresses of users in Kiwi TCMS. Additionally that may strain SMTP resources.
Patches
Users should upgrade to v12.0 or later.
Workarounds
Users may install and configure a rate-limiting proxy in front of Kiwi TCMS such as Nginx and/or configure rate limits on their email server when possible.
References
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://github.com/kiwitcms/Kiwi/security/advisories/GHSA-7j9h-3jxf-3vrf ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25171 ↗
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/3b712cb6-3fa3-4f71-8562-7a7016c6262e ↗
- https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2023/02/15/kiwi-tcms-120/ ↗
- https://github.com/kiwitcms/Kiwi/commit/761305d04f5910ba14cc04d1255a8f1afdbb87f3 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7j9h-3jxf-3vrf ↗