CVE-2023-32320
Description
A vulnerability was discovered in Nextcloud-Server. When multiple requests are sent in parallel, all of them were executed even if the amount of faulty requests succeeded the limit by the time the response is sent to the client. This allowed to send as many requests the server could handle in parallel to bruteforce protected details instead of the configured limit (default 8).
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Access Control
Technical Impact: Bypass Protection Mechanism
An attacker could perform an arbitrary number of authentication attempts using different passwords, and eventually gain access to the targeted account using a brute force attack.
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