Timing Attack Affecting com.vaadin:flow-server package, versions [,1.0.14)[1.1.0,2.4.7)[3.0.0,5.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMVAADIN-1074927
  • published15 Feb 2021
  • disclosed26 Jan 2021
  • creditXhelal Likaj

Introduced: 26 Jan 2021

CVE-2021-31404  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade com.vaadin:flow-server to version 1.0.14, 2.4.7, 5.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack due to using inconstant time comparison for CSRF tokens in the UIDL request handler, allowing attackers to guess a security token.

CVSS Scores

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