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Observable Timing Discrepancy

CVE-2023-25806

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

OpenSearch Security is a plugin for OpenSearch that offers encryption, authentication, and authorization. There is an observable discrepancy in the authentication response time between calls where the user provided exists and calls where it does not. This issue only affects calls using the internal basic identity provider (IdP), and not other externally configured IdPs. This issue affects versions through 1.3.8.0, and 2.0.0.0-rc1 through 2.5.0.0.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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  • LOW
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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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published