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Timing Attack Affecting github.com/robbert229/jwt Open this link in a new tab package, versions <1.0.0

0.0
low

  • Attack Complexity

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMROBBERT229JWT-50051

  • published

    1 Oct 2017

  • disclosed

    31 Mar 2015

  • credit

    Vetcher

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Introduced: 31 Mar 2015

CWE-208 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/robbert229/jwt to version 1.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. The library uses the insecure, non-constant string comparison function strings.Compare(), instead of the time constant string comparison. As a result, the comparison will fail faster when the first characters in the HMAC are incorrect. An attacker can use this difference to perform a timing attack, essentially allowing them to guess the HMAC one character at a time.

Similar vulnerability was previously found in Google's Keyczar crytographic library.