CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-12872
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The (1) Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and (2) SimpleSAML_Session class in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to conduct timing side-channel attacks by leveraging use of the standard comparison operator to compare secret material against user input.
Affected configurations
• simplesamlphp simplesamlphp (<= 1.14.11)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00017.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201703-01 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00017.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201703-01 Patch, Vendor Advisory