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CVE-2015-20110 (GCVE-0-2015-20110)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-31 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-06 18:28
VLAI
Summary
JHipster generator-jhipster before 2.23.0 allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character that is different. Attackers can guess tokens by brute forcing one character at a time and observing the timing. This of course drastically reduces the search space to a linear amount of guesses based on the token length times the possible characters.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-06 18:27 UTC
CWE
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