CVE-2015-20110

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.21%

generator-jhipster allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character

Published: 10/31/2023Modified: 11/8/2023
Also known as:GHSA-4gpm-r23h-gprw

Description

JHipster generator-jhipster before 2.23.0 allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character that is different. Attackers can guess tokens by brute forcing one character at a time and observing the timing. This of course drastically reduces the search space to a linear amount of guesses based on the token length times the possible characters.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References (6)