GHSA-8ch4-58qp-g3mpHighCVSS 5.9
Observable Timing Discrepancy in aaugustin websockets library
🔗 CVE IDs covered (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.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/websockets:< 9.1
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33880
- https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/commit/547a26b685d08cac0aa64e5e65f7867ac0ea9bc0
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/websockets/PYSEC-2021-95.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8ch4-58qp-g3mp