CVE-2020-15115

No minimum password length in etcd

State
Published
Severity
5.8 Medium
Published
Aug 6, 2020
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Jun 25, 2020

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Description

etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10 does not perform any password length validation, which allows for very short passwords, such as those with a length of one. This may allow an attacker to guess or brute-force users' passwords with little computational effort.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.8 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-521 {"CWE-521":"Weak Password Requirements"}

Affected Products

ProductVersions
etcdetcd-io
  • < 3.3.23Affected
  • < 3.4.10Affected

References

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