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high 8.3

CVE-2020-11052 json

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in Sorcery

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-jc8m-cxhj-668x , EUVD-2020-0428

cvss
8.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems sorcery 0.15.0
  • sorcery_project sorcery 0.15.0

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Exploit prediction

1.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems sorcery
<0.15.0
0.15.0

Affected products

  • Sorcery Sorcery

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

References

Sources

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