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CVE-2015-10004 (GCVE-0-2015-10004)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-27 21:13 – Updated: 2025-04-11 22:58
VLAI
Title
Timing side-channel in github.com/robbert229/jwt
Summary
Token validation methods are susceptible to a timing side-channel during HMAC comparison. With a large enough number of requests over a low latency connection, an attacker may use this to determine the expected HMAC.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-11 22:57 UTC
CWE
  • CWE 208: Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
github.com/robbert229/jwt github.com/robbert229/jwt Affected: 0 , < 0.0.0-20170426191122-ca1404ee6e83 (semver)
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