Timing Attack Affecting pay package, versions <11.6.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-PAY-17756774
  • published1 Jul 2026
  • disclosed1 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jul 2026

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

How to fix?

Upgrade pay to version 11.6.2 or higher.

Overview

pay is a package for processing payments in Ruby on Rails apps

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack via the valid_signature? function. An attacker can recover valid webhook signatures by sending multiple requests with crafted Paddle-Signature header values and measuring response times, allowing them to forge webhook events and potentially manipulate billing state.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1