GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist

GHSA-2x4v-g8cx-jxrq Login timing attack in ibexa/core

CRITICAL Published 2022-06-02 Modified 2022-06-02 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
Packagist
Packages
ibexa/core
Severity
Critical
Weaknesses
CWE-208
Reviewed
2022-06-02

Affected packages

• Packagist ibexa/core: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.7 → fixed in 4.0.7 • Packagist ibexa/core: >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.4 → fixed in 4.1.4

Description

Ibexa DXP is using random execution time to hinder timing attacks against user accounts, a method of discovering whether a given account exists in a system without knowing its password, thus affecting privacy. This implementation was found to not be good enough in some situations. The fix replaces this with constant time functionality, configured in the new security.yml parameter 'ibexa.security.authentication.constant_auth_time'. It will log a warning if the constant time is exceeded. If this happens the setting should be increased.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy weakness

References