CVE-2021-43298 (GCVE-0-2021-43298)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-25 19:11 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The code that performs password matching when using 'Basic' HTTP authentication does not use a constant-time memcmp and has no rate-limiting. This means that an unauthenticated network attacker can brute-force the HTTP basic password, byte-by-byte, by recording the webserver's response time until the unauthorized (401) response.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/embedthis/goahead/issues/304 | x_refsource_MISC |
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