csrf-lite@0.1.1 vulnerabilities

csrf protection for framework-less node sites

  • latest version

    1.0.0

  • latest non vulnerable version

  • first published

    11 years ago

  • latest version published

    8 years ago

  • licenses detected

  • Direct Vulnerabilities

    Known vulnerabilities in the csrf-lite package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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    Non-Constant Time String Comparison

    csrf-lite is a CSRF protection utility for framework-free node sites. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to a timing attack.

    While the CSRF protection itself works well and increases security, the library uses the built-in string comparison mechanism, ===, and not a time constant string comparison. As a result, the comparison will fail faster when the first characters in the token are incorrect. An attacker can use this difference to perform a timing attack, essentially allowing them to guess the CSRF token one character at a time.

    You can read more about timing attacks in Node.js on the Snyk blog: https://snyk.io/blog/node-js-timing-attack-ccc-ctf/

    How to fix Non-Constant Time String Comparison?

    Update to version 0.1.2 or higher.

    <=0.1.1