On successful submission of a password reset request, an email is sent
to the accounts known to the system. If sending this email fails (due to
email backend misconfiguration, service provider outage, network issues,
etc.), an attacker might exploit this by detecting which password reset
requests succeed and which ones generate a 500 error response.
Thanks to Thibaut Spriet for the report, and to Mariusz Felisiak, Adam
Johnson, and Sarah Boyce for the reviews.
Refs #34429: Following the implementation allowing the setting of
unusable passwords via the admin site, the `BaseUserCreationForm` and
`UserCreationForm` were extended to include a new field for choosing
whether password-based authentication for the new user should be enabled
or disabled at creation time.
Given that these forms are designed to be extended when implementing
custom user models, this branch ensures that this new field is moved to
a new, admin-dedicated, user creation form `AdminUserCreationForm`.
Regression in e626716c28.
Thanks Simon Willison for the report, Fabian Braun and Sarah Boyce for
the review.
This work also allows to subclass BaseUserCreationFormTest to reuse the
tests and assertions for testing forms that extend BaseUserCreationForm,
which is now used for UserCreationFormTest, increasing its coverage.
This is a follow up for the fix of CVE-2024-39329
(5d86458579) where the timing of
verify_password() was standardized when checking unusable passwords.
The auth forms using SetPasswordMixin were incorrectly including the
'This field is required.' error when additional validations (e.g.,
overriding `clean_password1`) were performed and failed.
This fix ensures accurate error reporting for password fields.
Co-authored-by: Natalia <124304+nessita@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu>
Co-authored-by: Mehmet İnce <mehmet@mehmetince.net>
Co-authored-by: Sarah Boyce <42296566+sarahboyce@users.noreply.github.com>
auth_tests.test_views.ChangelistTests.test_view_user_password_is_readonly
depends on the password hasher having the three components algorithm,
salt and hash.
The default password hasher (PBKDF2PasswordHasher) has an extra
iterations component, breaking the test.
Black 23.1.0 is released which, as the first release of the year,
introduces the 2023 stable style. This incorporates most of last year's
preview style.
https://github.com/psf/black/releases/tag/23.1.0
