Insecure Credential Comparison Affecting safe-compare package, versions >=1.1.0 <1.1.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDnpm:safe-compare:20180417
  • published17 Apr 2018
  • disclosed21 Feb 2018
  • creditSnyk Security Research Team

Introduced: 21 Feb 2018

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-522  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade safe-compare to version 1.1.2 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Insecure Credential Comparison. It used the bufferAlloc constructor incorrectly, which caused the password string to be "padded" with itself. This means that the passwords "a" and "aaaaaaaaaaaaa" would be equal.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1