pysec-2021-95
Vulnerability from pysec
Published
2021-06-06 15:15
Modified
2021-06-09 05:01
Details

The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.

Impacted products
Name purl
websockets pkg:pypi/websockets



{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "websockets",
            purl: "pkg:pypi/websockets",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "547a26b685d08cac0aa64e5e65f7867ac0ea9bc0",
                  },
               ],
               repo: "https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets",
               type: "GIT",
            },
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "9.1",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
         versions: [
            "0.1",
            "1.0",
            "2.0",
            "2.1",
            "2.2",
            "2.3",
            "2.4",
            "2.5",
            "2.6",
            "2.7",
            "3.0",
            "3.1",
            "3.2",
            "3.3",
            "3.4",
            "4.0",
            "4.0.1",
            "5.0",
            "5.0.1",
            "6.0",
            "7.0",
            "8.0",
            "8.0.1",
            "8.0.2",
            "8.1",
            "9.0",
            "9.0.1",
            "9.0.2",
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2021-33880",
      "GHSA-8ch4-58qp-g3mp",
   ],
   details: "The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.",
   id: "PYSEC-2021-95",
   modified: "2021-06-09T05:01:36.173811Z",
   published: "2021-06-06T15:15:00Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "FIX",
         url: "https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/commit/547a26b685d08cac0aa64e5e65f7867ac0ea9bc0",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8ch4-58qp-g3mp",
      },
   ],
}


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