CVE-2023-20902 (GCVE-0-2023-20902)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-09 00:36 – Updated: 2024-09-04 13:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Timing attack risk in Harbor
Summary
A timing condition in Harbor 2.6.x and below, Harbor 2.7.2 and below, Harbor 2.8.2 and below, and Harbor 1.10.17 and below allows an attacker with network access to
create jobs/stop job tasks and retrieve job task information.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-04 13:11 UTC
CWE
- In the Harbor jobservice container, the comparison of secrets in the authenticator type is prone to timing attacks.
Assigner
References
1 reference
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