CVE-2021-41171

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-41171
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-22 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-10-28 16:40:00 UTC
DescriptioneLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook manager for research teams. In versions of eLabFTW before 4.1.0, it allows attackers to bypass a brute-force protection mechanism by using many different forged PHPSESSID values in HTTP Cookie header. This issue has been addressed by implementing brute force login protection, as recommended by Owasp with Device Cookies. This mechanism will not impact users and will effectively thwart any brute-force attempts at guessing passwords. The only correct way to address this is to upgrade to version 4.1.0. Adding rate limitation upstream of the eLabFTW service is of course a valid option, with or without upgrading.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-307

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elabftw Elabftw All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.exploit-db.com/docs/50436 MISC www.exploit-db.com
Bypass bruteforce protection on login form · Advisory · elabftw/elabftw · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Release eLabFTW-4.1.0 · elabftw/elabftw · GitHub MISC github.com
Slow Down Online Guessing Attacks with Device Cookies | OWASP MISC owasp.org
Add JWT anti brute-force login protection (#2831) · elabftw/elabftw@8e92afe · GitHub MISC github.com
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