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Observable Discrepancy

CVE-2019-11578

Medium
5.9/10

Summary

"auth.c" in dhcpcd prior 6.3.0 through 7.2.0 allowed attackers to infer secrets by performing latency attacks.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-203 - Observable Discrepancy

The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes 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