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Insecure Credential Comparison Affecting safe-compare package, versions <1.1.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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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

CVE NOT AVAILABLE 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None