CVE-2017-8342 Radicale is vulnerable to timing oracles and simple bruteforce attacks

What is CVE-2017-8342?

CVE-2017-8342 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Apr 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Radicale before 1.1.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0rc2 is prone to timing oracles and simple brute-force attacks when using the htpasswd authentication method.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8342?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including radicale and Radicale. It affects 1 product.

Products include Radicale Radicale.

How do I fix CVE-2017-8342?

Upgrade radicale to a fixed version for your release line: 1.1.2 or 2.0.0rc2.

Is CVE-2017-8342 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8342 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2015-8747 Radicale vulnerable to arbitrary file read or write Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-1505 Radicale is vulnerable to directory traversal on Windows Filesystem Storage Backend component Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-8748 Radicale regex metacharacters injection in the user name Medium 5.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8342, DLA-2187-1, DLA-934-1, GHSA-rpv4-63g3-9x23, MGASA-2017-0140, PYSEC-2017-102 and 1 more.