CVE-2025-43863

vantage6 lacks brute-force protection on change password functionality

State
Published
Severity
1.7 Low
Published
Jun 12, 2025
Updated
Jun 12, 2025
Reserved
Apr 17, 2025

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Description

vantage6 is an open source framework built to enable, manage and deploy privacy enhancing technologies like Federated Learning and Multi-Party Computation. If attacker gets access to an authenticated session, they can try to brute-force the user password by using the change password functionality: they can call that route infinitely which will return the message that password is wrong until it is correct. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.11.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.01.7 LowCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:UGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Affected Products

ProductVersions
vantage6vantage6
  • < 4.11.0Affected

References

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