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CVE-2019-13420 (GCVE-0-2019-13420)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-08-13 14:25 – Updated: 2024-08-04 23:49
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Summary
Search Guard versions before 21.0 had an timing side channel issue when using the internal user database.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-208 - Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
floragunn Search Guard Affected: unspecified , < 21.0 (custom)
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