CVE-2021-33880

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-33880
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-06 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-12 14:07:00 UTC
DescriptionThe aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-203

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy 1.14.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Security Edge Protection Proxy 1.5.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Service Communication Proxy 1.14.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Unified Data Repository 1.14.0 All All All
Application Websockets Project Websockets All All All All
Application Websockets Project Websockets All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
Use constant-time comparison for passwords. · aaugustin/websockets@547a26b · GitHub MISC github.com
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 183446 Debian Security Update for python-websockets (CVE-2021-33880)
  • 982212 Python (pip) Security Update for websockets (GHSA-8ch4-58qp-g3mp)
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