Timing Attack Affecting ezsystems/ezplatform-kernel package, versions >=1.3.0, <1.3.19


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-EZSYSTEMSEZPLATFORMKERNEL-2855302
  • published3 Jun 2022
  • disclosed2 Jun 2022
  • creditChristoph Rottermanner @ it.sec, Jonas Roller @ it.sec

Introduced: 2 Jun 2022

CVE-2022-48366  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ezsystems/ezplatform-kernel to version 1.3.19 or higher.

Overview

ezsystems/ezplatform-kernel is an is the heart of eZ Platform, a modern CMS built on top of the Symfony (Full Stack) Framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. Ibexa DXP is using random execution time to hinder timing attacks against user accounts, a method of discovering whether a given account exists in a system without knowing its password, thus affecting privacy. This implementation was found to not be good enough in some situations.

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