CVE-2017-12872

The (1) Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and (2) SimpleSAML_Session class in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to conduct timing side-channel attacks by leveraging use of the standard comparison operator to compare secret material against user input.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-09-01

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Simplesamlphp (Simplesamlphp)

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00007.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00017.html
• https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201703-01