Timing Attack

github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server is vulnerable to a Timing attack. The vulnerability is due to improper implementation of constant time comparison when comparing the MSTeams plugin webhook secret, allows an attacker to exploit timing differences in the comparison process to extract the...

Heavy-Tailed Privacy: the Symmetric Alpha-Stable Privacy Mechanism

With the rapid growth of digital platforms, there is increasing apprehension about how personal data is collected, stored, and used by various entities. These concerns arise from the increasing frequency of data breaches, cyber-attacks, and misuse of personal information for targeted advertising...

[SECURITY] Fedora 41 Update: perl-String-Compare-ConstantTime-0.321-21.fc41

This module provides one function, "equals", which works like perl's "eq", but which does not provide a timing side-channel. Such comparison is useful when matching against a secret string...

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: perl-String-Compare-ConstantTime-0.321-19.fc40

This module provides one function, "equals", which works like perl's "eq", but which does not provide a timing side-channel. Such comparison is useful when matching against a secret string...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: perl-String-Compare-ConstantTime-0.321-22.fc42

This module provides one function, "equals", which works like perl's "eq", but which does not provide a timing side-channel. Such comparison is useful when matching against a secret string...

SoK: Security of EMV Contactless Payment Systems

The widespread adoption of EMV Europay, Mastercard, and Visa contactless payment systems has greatly improved convenience for both users and merchants. However, this growth has also exposed significant security challenges. This SoK provides a comprehensive analysis of security vulnerabilities in...

PT-2025-38571

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The Linux kernel contains a flaw within the wifi subsystem, specifically in the cfg80211 component, leading to a use-after-free condition in the cmp bss function. This issue was addresse...

Leveraging Vertical Public-Private Split for Improved Synthetic Data Generation

Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation DP-SDG is a key enabler of private and secure tabular-data sharing, producing artificial data that carries through the underlying statistical properties of the input data. This typically involves adding carefully calibrated statistical noise to...

Measuring Computational Universality of Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Many real-world applications, such as machine learning and graph analytics, involve combinations of linear and non-linear operations. As these applications increasingly handle sensitive data, there is a significant demand for privacy-preserving computation techniques capable of efficiently...

Aura or LifeLock: Who Offers Better Identity Protection in 2025?

The Growing Threat of Digital Identity Theft Identity theft is a continuous online threat that lurks behind every…...

CVE-2024-36469

Execution time for an unsuccessful login differs when using a non-existing username compared to using an existing one...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-13939

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. As stated in the documentation: "If the lengths of the strings are different, because equals returns false right away the size of the secret string m...

CVE-2024-13939

The connected Astra Linux bulletin cites a timing-attack vulnerability in the Mojolicious Perl component (secure_compare) and notes only versions after 1.74 are affected, aligning with CVE-2024-13939’s class of timing leaks. Fedora/Nessus entries confirm CVE-2024-13939 is addressed by updates to ...

Ansible vs Terraform: Which is More Secure for Infrastructure Automation?

Gartner describes infrastructure as code IaC as a key way to unlock the potential of the cloud. However,…...

Timing attacks to guess password in lollms_authentication.py

Description The authenticateuser function in /server/endpoints/lollmsauthentication.py is vulnerable to timing attacks that can be exploited to: Enumerate valid usernames. Guess passwords incrementally by analyzing response time differences. Explanation of the vulnerability def...

The vulnerability of the microprogrammed software of industrial routers SCALANCE M-800 and industrial switches SCALANCE SC-600, related to partial comparison, allows a intruder to influence the integrity of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the microprogrammed software of industrial routers SCALANCE M-800 and industrial switches SCALANCE SC-600 is related to a partial comparison. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker operating remotely to influence the integrity of the protected information...

Post-Quantum Secure Feldman Verifiable Secret Sharing 安全漏洞

Post-Quantum Secure Feldman Verifiable Secret Sharing is a Verifiable Secret Sharing VSS for Post-Quantum Secure Feldman in Python by the individual developer David Osipov. A security vulnerability exists in Post-Quantum Secure Feldman Verifiable Secret Sharing 0.7.6b0 and earlier versions, which...

CVE-2025-0167 affecting package curl for versions less than 8.11.1-3

CVE-2025-0167 affecting package curl for versions less than 8.11.1-3. A patched version of the package is available...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2012-2122

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - sql/password.c in Oracle MySQL 5.1.x before 5.1.63, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.6, and MariaDB 5.1.x before 5.1.62, 5.2.x before 5.2.12, 5.3.x...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-8616

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existi...