Timing Attack Affecting safe-compare package, versions >=1.0.4 <1.1.4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
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- published 1 Mar 2019
- disclosed 13 Mar 2019
- credit hraban
How to fix?
Upgrade safe-compare
to version 1.1.4 or higher.
Overview
safe-compare is a Constant-time comparison algorithm to prevent Node.js timing attacks.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack via the nativeTimingSafeEqual
function which could leak the length of a user password. This is caused by always choosing the length of the longer string when comparing.