Observable Timing Discrepancy in aaugustin websockets library
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Jun 11, 2021
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 1, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jun 6, 2021
Reviewed
Jun 10, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jun 11, 2021
Last updated
Feb 1, 2023
The 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.
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