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CVE-2017-12872

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Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published9/1/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxsimplesamlphp:simplesamlphp

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00007.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00017.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201703-01(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00007.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00017.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201703-01(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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