Timing Attack Affecting com.vaadin:vaadin-server package, versions [8.0.0,8.12.3)[7.0.0,7.7.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMVAADIN-1252747
  • published21 Apr 2021
  • disclosed19 Apr 2021
  • creditXhelal Likaj

Introduced: 19 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-31403  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade com.vaadin:vaadin-server to version 8.12.3, 7.7.24 or higher.

Overview

com.vaadin:vaadin-server is a Java framework for modern Java web applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. Non-constant-time comparison of CSRF tokens in the UIDL request handler allows an attacker to guess a security token via timing attack.

CVSS Scores

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