expressjs/basic-auth-connect · Security
basic-auth-connect's callback uses time unsafe string comparison
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-7p89-p6hx-q4fw
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-47178
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Impact
basic-auth-connect <1.1.0 uses a timing-unsafe equality comparison that can leak timing information
Patches
this issue has been fixed in basic-auth-connect 1.1.0
References
CWEs
- CWE-208 · Observable Timing Discrepancy