CSRF-Lite Vulnerability: Weak Secret Guessing with Fail First String Comparison

CVE-2016-10535 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

csrf-lite is a cross-site request forgery protection library for framework-less node sites. csrf-lite uses `===`, a fail first string comparison, instead of a time constant string comparison This enables an attacker to guess the secret in no more than (16*18)288 guesses, instead of the 16^18 guesses required were the timing attack not present.

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