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GHSA-C6WG-CM5X-RQVJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-03-07 17:38 – Updated: 2023-03-07 17:38

Summary

OpenSearch has time discrepancy in authentication responses

Details

Impact

There is an observable discrepancy in the authentication response time between calls where the user provided exists and calls where it does not. This issue only affects calls using the internal basic identity provider (IdP), and not other externally configured IdPs.

Patches

OpenSearch 1.3.9 and 2.6.0

Workarounds

None.

References

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please contact AWS/Amazon Security using our issue reporting page [1] or directly via email [2]. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

[1] AWS Security issue reporting page: https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/ [2] AWS Security email: aws-security@amazon.com

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Maven",
        "name": "org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
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              "fixed": "1.3.9"
            }
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Maven",
        "name": "org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "2.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.6.0"
            }
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-203",
      "CWE-208"
    ],
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    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-03-07T17:38:38Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-03-02T04:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "### Impact\nThere is an observable discrepancy in the authentication response time between calls where the user provided exists and calls where it does not. This issue only affects calls using the internal basic identity provider (IdP), and not other externally configured IdPs.\n\n### Patches\nOpenSearch 1.3.9 and 2.6.0\n\n### Workarounds\nNone.\n\n### References\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please contact AWS/Amazon Security using our issue reporting page [1] or directly via email [2]. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.\n\n[1] AWS Security issue reporting page: https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/\n[2] AWS Security email: [aws-security@amazon.com](mailto:aws-security@amazon.com)",
  "id": "GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj",
  "modified": "2023-03-07T17:38:38Z",
  "published": "2023-03-07T17:38:38Z",
  "references": [
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    },
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    },
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    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "OpenSearch has time discrepancy in authentication responses"
}

CVE-2023-25806 (GCVE-0-2023-25806)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-02 03:04 – Updated: 2025-03-05 21:28

Title

Time discrepancy in authentication responses in OpenSearch

Summary

OpenSearch Security is a plugin for OpenSearch that offers encryption, authentication and authorization. There is an observable discrepancy in the authentication response time between calls where the user provided exists and calls where it does not. This issue only affects calls using the internal basic identity provider (IdP), and not other externally configured IdPs. Patches were released in versions 1.3.9 and 2.6.0, there are no workarounds.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-05 21:28 UTC

CWE

CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7627 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/se…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
opensearch-project	security	Affected: < 1.3.9 Affected: >= 2.0.0, < 2.6.0

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