Timing Attack Affecting olm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OLM-7814202
  • published23 Aug 2024
  • disclosed22 Aug 2024
  • creditSoatok

Introduced: 22 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-45192  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

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