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Insecure Credential Comparison Affecting safe-compare Open this link in a new tab package, versions <1.1.1

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    High

  • Integrity

    High

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  • snyk-id

    npm:safe-compare:20180210

  • published

    14 Feb 2018

  • disclosed

    9 Feb 2018

  • credit

    James Billingham

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Introduced: 9 Feb 2018

CWE-522 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade safe-compare to version 1.1.1 or higher.

Overview

safe-compare is Constant-time comparison algorithm to prevent timing attacks..

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Insecure Credential Comparison due to using String.prototype.length instead of Buffer.byteLength.