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CVE-2015-20110: generator-jhipster allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character

October 31, 2023

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-4gpm-r23h-gprw
  • github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/commit/79fe5626cb1bb80f9ac86cf46980748e65d2bdbc
  • github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/commit/7c49ab3d45dc4921b831a2ca55fb1e2a2db1ee25
  • github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/compare/v2.22.0...v2.23.0
  • github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/issues/2095
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-20110

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Affected versions

All versions before 2.23.0

Fixed versions

  • 2.23.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.23.0 or above.

Source file

npm/generator-jhipster/CVE-2015-20110.yml

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