Timing Attack Affecting buildbot package, versions [,1.3.0)


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-BUILDBOT-42177
  • published 2 Aug 2018
  • disclosed 30 Jan 2018
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 30 Jan 2018

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-208 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade buildbot to version 1.3.0 or higher.

Overview

buildbot is an open-source continuous integration framework for automating software build, test, and release processes.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. It implemented a character to character comparison !=, and not a time constant string comparison. An attacker can use this difference to perform a timing attack, essentially allowing them to guess the encryption key one character at a time.