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Timing attack in eZ Platform Ibexa

Low severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 12, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 16, 2023

Package

composer ezsystems/ezplatform-kernel (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 1.3.0, < 1.3.19

Patched versions

1.3.19
composer ezsystems/ezpublish-kernel (Composer)
>= 7.5.0, < 7.5.29
7.5.29

Description

Ibexa DXP is using random execution time to hinder timing attacks against user accounts, a method of discovering whether a given account exists in a system without knowing its password, thus affecting privacy. This implementation was found to not be good enough in some situations. The fix replaces this with constant time functionality, configured in the new security.yml parameter 'ibexa.security.authentication.constant_auth_time'. It will log a warning if the constant time is exceeded. If this happens the setting should be increased.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 12, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 12, 2023
Reviewed Mar 13, 2023
Last updated Mar 16, 2023

Severity

Low
3.7
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-48366

GHSA ID

GHSA-66m4-gc8h-hpjx
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