Timing Attack Affecting websockets package, versions [8.0, 9.1)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.11% (45th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-WEBSOCKETS-1297182
- published 28 May 2021
- disclosed 28 May 2021
- credit Aymeric Augustin
Introduced: 28 May 2021
CVE-2021-33880 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade websockets to version 9.1 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack when HTTP Basic Auth is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory. This vulnerability can possibly be exploitable by guessing the password via a timing attack.