CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-33880

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2021-06-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-06-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-203

Description

The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.

Affected configurations

• websockets project websockets (< 9.1) • oracle communications cloud native core policy 1.14.0 • oracle communications cloud native core security edge protection proxy 1.5.0 • oracle communications cloud native core service communication proxy 1.14.0 • oracle communications cloud native core unified data repository 1.14.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness

References