Timing Attack Affecting websocket-client package, versions [,0.33.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WEBSOCKETCLIENT-40497
  • published21 Sept 2015
  • disclosed21 Sept 2015
  • creditPredrag Gruevski

Introduced: 21 Sep 2015

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

websocket-client is a WebSocket client for python.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attacks due to not comparing the HMAC hashes in constant time. A malicious user could guess the valid HMAC hash during the comparison time with an algorithm.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1