Timing Attack

tomcat-catalina is vulnerable to timing attacks. When the supplied username does not exist, the Realm implementation will not process the supplied password, making a timing attack possible to determine valid usernames. Note that the default configuration includes the LockOutRealm which makes...

tomcat: timing attack in Realm implementation

The Realm implementations did not process the supplied password if the supplied user name did not exist. This made a timing attack possible to determine valid user names. Note that the default configuration includes the LockOutRealm which makes exploitation of this vulnerability harder...