Observable Timing Discrepancy in aaugustin Websockets Library: Timing Attack on HTTP Basic Authentication

Observable Timing Discrepancy in aaugustin Websockets Library: Timing Attack on HTTP Basic Authentication

CVE-2021-33880 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

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