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Observable Timing Discrepancy

CVE-2014-125055

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in agnivade easy-scrypt versions prior to 1.0.0. Affected is the function "VerifyPassphrase" of the file "scrypt.go". The manipulation leads to observable timing discrepancy. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217596. NOTE: The affected versions of this package are not available in a package manager we support.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy

Two separate operations in a product require different amounts of time to complete, in a way that is observable to an actor and reveals security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published