Timing Attack Affecting buildbot package, versions [,1.3.0)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-BUILDBOT-42177
- published 2 Aug 2018
- disclosed 30 Jan 2018
- credit Unknown
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.