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safe-compare@1.1.3 vulnerabilities

Constant-time comparison algorithm to prevent timing attacks.

  • latest version

    1.1.4

  • latest non vulnerable version

    1.1.4

  • first published

    8 years ago

  • latest version published

    5 years ago

  • licenses detected

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

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    Timing Attack

    safe-compare is a Constant-time comparison algorithm to prevent Node.js timing attacks.

    Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack via the nativeTimingSafeEqual function which could leak the length of a user password. This is caused by always choosing the length of the longer string when comparing.

    How to fix Timing Attack?

    Upgrade safe-compare to version 1.1.4 or higher.

    >=1.0.4 <1.1.4
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