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Vulnerability details: VCID-g1c7-32gs-77hy
Vulnerability ID VCID-g1c7-32gs-77hy
Aliases CVE-2020-11037
GHSA-jjjr-3jcw-f8v6
PYSEC-2020-153
Summary In Wagtail before versions 2.7.2 and 2.8.2, a potential timing attack exists on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's "Privacy" controls. This password check is performed through a character-by-character string comparison, and so an attacker who is able to measure the time taken by this check to a high degree of accuracy could potentially use timing differences to gain knowledge of the password. This is understood to be feasible on a local network, but not on the public internet. Privacy settings that restrict access to pages/documents on a per-user or per-group basis (as opposed to a shared password) are unaffected by this vulnerability. This has been patched in 2.7.3, 2.8.2, 2.9.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:06:34.528913+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/wagtail/PYSEC-2020-153.yaml 38.6.0