Advisories for Pypi/Rdiffweb package

2023
2022

rdiffweb vulnerable to password complexity bypass leading to weak passwords

ikus060/rdiffweb prior to 2.4.9 allows a user to set there password to all spaces. While rdiffweb has a password policy requiring passwords to be between 8 and 128 characters, it does not validate the password entropy, allowing users to bypass password complexity requirements with weak passwords. This issue has been fixed in version 2.4.9. No workarounds are known to exist.

rdiffweb's unlimited length Fullname field can lead to DoS

rdiffweb prior to 2.5.0a3 does not validate email length, allowing users to insert an email longer than 255 characters. If a user signs up with an email with a length of 1 million or more characters and logs in, withdraws, or changes their email, the server may cause denial of service due to overload.

rdiffweb vulnerable to account access via session fixation

rdiffweb prior to 2.4.7 fails to invalidate session cookies on logout, leading to session fixation and allowing an attacker to access a users account. After logging in and logging out, the application continues to use the preauthentication cookies. The cookies remain the same after closing the browser and after password reset. The same cookies are reassigned for additional user logins which can lead to session fixation. An attacker can gain …