CVE-2017-5537
medium
CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.3
Description
The password reset form in Weblate before 2.10.1 provides different error messages depending on whether the email address is associated with an account, which allows remote attackers to enumerate user accounts via a series of requests.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| weblate | weblate | {"endIncluding":"2.10"} | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/11
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/20/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95676
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/blob/weblate-2.10.1/docs/changes.rst
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/commit/abe0d2a29a1d8e896bfe829c8461bf8b391f1079
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/issues/1317
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5537
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/weblate/PYSEC-2017-42.yaml
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.