ROS-20240409-02

Vulnerability of the hmac.comparedigest function of the Lib/hmac.py library of the programming language interpreter Python is related to synchronization errors when using a shared resource "Race Situation". Exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker acting remotely to escalate thei...

CVE-2022-48566

An issue was discovered in comparedigest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.comparedigest...

GlobaLeaks: GlobaLeaks is vulnerable to timing attacks.

Dear GlobaLeaks bug bounty team, GlobaLeaks is vulnerable to timing attacks, because the checkpassword function performs a byte-by-byte comparison, which terminates early when two characters do not match. Summary --- Timing attacks are a type of side channel attack where one can discover valuable...