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Potential Side Channel Attack on non-constant time Comparison #997

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nevercodecorrect opened this issue Apr 7, 2024 · 1 comment
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nevercodecorrect commented Apr 7, 2024

  • pyspider version: 0.3.10
  • Operating system: Ubuntu-22.04
  • Start up command:

Expected behavior

The vulnerable code is here, the password comparison should use a constant time algorithm

Actual behavior

The vulnerable code is here. An attacker could leverage the differences between the execution time to recover the secrets. String comparison == is not a constant implementation, the execution time may vary based on how many characters are matched. A constant-time implementation would be recommended.
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