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Timing Attack Affecting websocket-client package, versions [,0.33.0)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-WEBSOCKETCLIENT-40497
  • published 21 Sep 2015
  • disclosed 21 Sep 2015
  • credit Predrag Gruevski
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Introduced: 21 Sep 2015

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Overview

websocket-client is a WebSocket client for python.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attacks due to not comparing the HMAC hashes in constant time. A malicious user could guess the valid HMAC hash during the comparison time with an algorithm.