Timing Attack Affecting rack-protection package, versions <1.5.5 >=2.0.0.beta1, <2.0.0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.18% (55th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-RACKPROTECTION-20395
- published 2 Aug 2017
- disclosed 24 May 2015
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 24 May 2015
CVE-2018-1000119 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade rack-protection
to versions 1.5.5, 2.0.0 or higher.
Overview
rack-protection
helps protect against typical web attacks.
Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Timing Attack due to time-variable comparison of signatures. A malicious user can guess a valid signature one char at a time by considering the time it takes a signature validation to fail.
You can read more about timing attacks on our blog