CVE-2021-43298
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-01-25 19:11
Modified
2024-08-04 03:55
Severity ?
Summary
The code that performs password matching when using 'Basic' HTTP authentication does not use a constant-time memcmp and has no rate-limiting. This means that an unauthenticated network attacker can brute-force the HTTP basic password, byte-by-byte, by recording the webserver's response time until the unauthorized (401) response.
References
reefs@jfrog.comhttps://github.com/embedthis/goahead/issues/304Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
embedthisgoahead
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