Vulnerability · Published Mar 1, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-39228Observable Response Discrepancy in vantage6

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in vantage6 from vantage6. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

vantage6 is a privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure for secure insight exchange. vantage6 does not inform the user of wrong username/password combination if the username actually exists. This is an attempt to prevent bots from obtaining usernames. However, if a wrong password is entered a number of times, the user account is blocked temporarily. This issue has been fixed in version 3.8.0.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
PyPI	vantage6	3.8.0	GHSA-36gx-9q6h-g429
PyPI	vantage6	3.8.0	PYSEC-2023-313
PyPI	vantage6	3.8.0	PYSEC-2023-52

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
vantage6	vantage6	< 3.8.0

Weakness: CWE-204, CWE-203 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-36gx-9q6h-g429 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/issues/59 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/pull/281 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/ab4381c35d24add06f75d5a8a284321f7a340bd2 x_refsource_MISC