vantage6 lacks brute-force protection on change password functionality
### Impact If attacker gets access to an authenticated session, they can try to brute-force the user password by using the change password functionality: they can call that route infinitely which will return the message that password is wrong until it is correct ### Patches This issue has been patched in version 4.11.0 ### Workarounds None
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describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-43863US | critical9.8 | — | ||
vantage6 is an open source framework built to enable, manage and deploy privacy enhancing technologies like Federated Learning and Multi-Party Computation. If attacker gets access… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/vantage6/PYSEC-2025-220.yamlWEB
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6PACKAGE
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e0f1841b310f6f610e8137db2506cf683ce154d0WEB
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-j6g5-p62x-58hwWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43863ADVISORY
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