GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-8ch4-58qp-g3mp Observable Timing Discrepancy in aaugustin websockets library
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-33880
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- websockets
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-203, CWE-208
- Reviewed
- 2021-06-10
Affected packages
• PyPI websockets: < 9.1 → fixed in 9.1
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-33880 The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33880 advisory
- https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/commit/547a26b685d08cac0aa64e5e65f7867ac0ea9bc0 web
- https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/websockets/PYSEC-2021-95.yaml web
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html web
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html web