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CVE-2024-13939 (GCVE-0-2024-13939)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-28 02:05 – Updated: 2025-03-28 14:08
VLAI?
Title
String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string
Summary
String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. As stated in the documentation: "If the lengths of the strings are different, because equals returns false right away the size of the secret string may be leaked (but not its contents)." This is similar to CVE-2020-36829
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
FRACTAL String::Compare::ConstantTime Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.321 (custom)
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Credits
Robert Rothenberg
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