Timing Attack Affecting tlslite-ng package, versions [,0.7.6) [0.8.0-alpha1, 0.8.0-alpha39)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.3% (70th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-TLSLITENG-1053429
- published 22 Dec 2020
- disclosed 21 Dec 2020
- credit Hubert Kario
Introduced: 21 Dec 2020
CVE-2020-26263 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade tlslite-ng to version 0.7.6, 0.8.0-alpha39 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. It has multiple ways in which it leaks information about the decrypted ciphertext - both the bit length of the decrypted message as well as where the first unexpected byte lays.
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