GHSA-p4f5-m8h6-x7p5unknown
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication versions before 0.10029 for Perl allow timing attacks on stored...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication versions before 0.10029 for Perl allow timing attacks on stored passwords via eq comparisons in the legacy password verifier.
CVE-2026-5091 was fixed in the realm-based verifier. The legacy verifier, used by the deprecated login method, compares clear-text passwords, crypt hashes and base64 digests with eq, so the comparison time depends on how many leading bytes match.
A remote attacker can use response-time differences to guess the stored password or hash.
🔗 References (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74846
- https://github.com/perl-catalyst/Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication/commit/ba4435f1fa6b641e6c8793c88b5433afa83ceafa.patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/ETHER/Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication-0.10029/changes
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5091
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4f5-m8h6-x7p5