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CVE-2020-11052
Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in Sorcery
High8.3EPSS 1.6%
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- Updated
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- GitHub_M
Description
In Sorcery before 0.15.0, there is a brute force vulnerability when using password authentication via Sorcery. The brute force protection submodule will prevent a brute force attack for the defined lockout period, but once expired, protection will not be re-enabled until a user or malicious actor logs in successfully. This does not affect users that do not use the built-in brute force protection submodule, nor users that use permanent account lockout. This has been patched in 0.15.0.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.3.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemssorceryGHSA-jc8m-cxhj-668x (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/security/advisories/GHSA-jc8m-cxhj-668x (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/issues/231 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/pull/235 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/commit/0f116d223826895a73b12492f17486e5d54ab7a7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jc8m-cxhj-668x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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