Lack of protection against brute force attacks In generator-jhipster
Description
generator-jhipster allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character JHipster generator-jhipster before 2.23.0 allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character that is different. Attackers can guess tokens by brute forcing one character at a time and observing the timing. This of course drastically reduces the search space to a linear amount of guesses based on the token length times the possible characters.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Package | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
npm | 2.23.0 |
Aliases
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References
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