CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-20240

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2026-06-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-06-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-208

Description

Crypt::PBKDF2 versions before 0.261630 for Perl are vulnerable to timing attacks. These versions use Perl's built-in eq comparison. Discrepancies in timing could be used to guess the underlying derived-key.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy weakness

References