CVE-2019-16766

2FA bypass in Wagtail through new device path

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 High
Published: Nov 29, 2019
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Sep 24, 2019

Description

When using wagtail-2fa before 1.3.0, if someone gains access to someone's Wagtail login credentials, they can log into the CMS and bypass the 2FA check by changing the URL. They can then add a new device and gain full access to the CMS. This problem has been patched in version 1.3.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-304 Missing Critical Step in Authentication
CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Affected Products

Product	Versions
wagtail-2faLab Digital	< 1.3.0 to before 1.3.0Affected

References

https://github.com/LabD/wagtail-2fa/security/advisories/GHSA-89px-ww3j-g2mm
https://github.com/labd/wagtail-2fa/commit/a6711b29711729005770ff481b22675b35ff5c81
https://github.com/labd/wagtail-2fa/commit/13b12995d35b566df08a17257a23863ab6efb0ca

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