Timing Attack Affecting github.com/ginuerzh/gost package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.14% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMGINUERZHGOST-5595564
  • published 23 May 2023
  • disclosed 22 May 2023
  • credit porcupineyhairs

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for github.com/ginuerzh/gost.

Overview

github.com/ginuerzh/gost is a simple Go security tunnel

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack due to a naive equality check applied to data supplied via HTTP header to the Authenticate() function in auth.go.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
3.7 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.9 medium