CVE-2020-36829 (GCVE-0-2020-36829)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-13 20:37
VLAI
Summary
The Mojolicious module before 8.65 for Perl is vulnerable to secure_compare timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. Only versions after 1.74 are affected.
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: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-09 16:06 UTC
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
mojolicious mojolicious Affected: 0 , < 8.65 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:mojolicious:mojolicious:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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