{"id":"GHSA-jc8m-cxhj-668x","summary":"Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in Sorcery","details":"### Impact\nBrute 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.\n\n### Patches\nPatched as of version `0.15.0`.\n\n### Workarounds\nCurrently no workarounds, other than monkey patching the authenticate method provided by Sorcery or upgrading to version `0.15.0`.","aliases":["CVE-2020-11052"],"modified":"2026-07-08T06:00:06.653500011Z","published":"2020-05-07T21:16:46Z","database_specific":{"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2020-05-07T21:16:22Z","nvd_published_at":null,"cwe_ids":["CWE-307"]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/security/advisories/GHSA-jc8m-cxhj-668x"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11052"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/issues/231"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/pull/235"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/commit/0f116d223826895a73b12492f17486e5d54ab7a7"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/sorcery/CVE-2020-11052.yml"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"sorcery","ecosystem":"RubyGems","purl":"pkg:gem/sorcery"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.15.0"}]}],"versions":["0.1.0","0.1.1","0.1.2","0.1.3","0.1.4","0.10.0","0.10.1","0.10.2","0.10.3","0.11.0","0.12.0","0.13.0","0.14.0","0.2.0","0.2.1","0.3.0","0.3.1","0.4.0","0.4.1","0.4.2","0.5.0","0.5.1","0.5.2","0.5.21","0.5.3","0.5.30","0.6.0","0.6.1","0.7.0","0.7.1","0.7.10","0.7.11","0.7.12","0.7.13","0.7.2","0.7.3","0.7.4","0.7.5","0.7.6","0.7.7","0.7.8","0.7.9","0.8.0","0.8.1","0.8.2","0.8.4","0.8.5","0.8.6","0.9.0","0.9.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/05/GHSA-jc8m-cxhj-668x/GHSA-jc8m-cxhj-668x.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L"}]}