Timing Attack Affecting gradio package, versions [,4.19.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-GRADIO-6263801
  • published 23 Feb 2024
  • disclosed 22 Feb 2024
  • credit Abubakar Abid

How to fix?

Upgrade gradio to version 4.19.2 or higher.

Overview

gradio is a Python library for easily interacting with trained machine learning models

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack due to the way string comparisons are handled, allowing them to terminate early upon finding a mismatch. This behavior can be exploited by an attacker to conduct a brute-force attack to guess the password of password-protected applications by making numerous attempts without being rate-limited.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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