GHSA-4gpm-r23h-gprwHighCVSS 7.5

generator-jhipster allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character

Published
October 31, 2023
Last Modified
November 17, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

JHipster generator-jhipster before 2.23.0 allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character that is different. Attackers can guess tokens by brute forcing one character at a time and observing the timing. This of course drastically reduces the search space to a linear amount of guesses based on the token length times the possible characters.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/generator-jhipster:< 2.23.0

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