Timing Attack Affecting olm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-OLM-7814202
  • published 23 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 22 Aug 2024
  • credit Soatok

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for olm.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack due to the use of base64 when decoding group session keys. An attacker can observe differences in execution time to infer sensitive data by exploiting these timing discrepancies.

Note: libolm is now deprecated.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    Low
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    None
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None