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-rw-r--r--django/contrib/auth/hashers.py10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/hashers.py b/django/contrib/auth/hashers.py
index 9db5a12e13..f11bc8a0f3 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/hashers.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/hashers.py
@@ -43,14 +43,20 @@ def check_password(password, encoded, setter=None, preferred="default"):
If setter is specified, it'll be called when you need to
regenerate the password.
"""
- if password is None or not is_password_usable(encoded):
- return False
+ fake_runtime = password is None or not is_password_usable(encoded)
preferred = get_hasher(preferred)
try:
hasher = identify_hasher(encoded)
except ValueError:
# encoded is gibberish or uses a hasher that's no longer installed.
+ fake_runtime = True
+
+ if fake_runtime:
+ # Run the default password hasher once to reduce the timing difference
+ # between an existing user with an unusable password and a nonexistent
+ # user or missing hasher (similar to #20760).
+ make_password(get_random_string(UNUSABLE_PASSWORD_SUFFIX_LENGTH))
return False
hasher_changed = hasher.algorithm != preferred.algorithm