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Observable Discrepancy

CVE-2022-36105

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system released under the GNU GPL. It has been discovered that observing response time during user authentication (backend and frontend) can be used to distinguish between existing and non-existing user accounts. Extension authors of 3rd party TYPO3 extensions providing a custom authentication service should check if the extension is affected by the described problem. Affected extensions must implement new `MimicServiceInterface::mimicAuthUser`, which simulates corresponding times regular processing would usually take. This issue affects both typo3/cms and typo3/cms-core in versions 6.x, 7.x prior to 7.6.58, 8.x prior to 8.7.48, 9.x prior to 9.5.37, 10.0.x prior to 10.4.32, and 11.0.x prior to 11.5.16. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-203 - Observable Discrepancy

The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published