Timing Attack Affecting express-basic-auth package, versions <1.1.7
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-EXPRESSBASICAUTH-174345
- published 16 Apr 2019
- disclosed 1 Mar 2019
- credit Hraban Luyat
How to fix?
Upgrade express-basic-auth to version 1.1.7 or higher.
Overview
express-basic-auth is a simple plug & play HTTP basic auth middleware for Express.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack due to it using native string compare for passwords, as oppose to comparing with a set constant time.