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GHSA-X2V7-W9J6-RQMX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-28 03:30 – Updated: 2025-04-11 18:30

Details

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string.

As stated in the documentation: "If the lengths of the strings are different, because equals returns false right away the size of the secret string may be leaked (but not its contents)."

This is similar to CVE-2020-36829

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

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CVE-2024-13939 (GCVE-0-2024-13939)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-28 02:05 – Updated: 2025-03-28 14:08

Title

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string

Summary

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. As stated in the documentation: "If the lengths of the strings are different, because equals returns false right away the size of the secret string may be leaked (but not its contents)." This is similar to CVE-2020-36829

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-28 14:08 UTC

CWE

CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy

Assigner

CPANSec CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 272 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://metacpan.org/release/FRACTAL/String-Compa…	related

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
FRACTAL	String::Compare::ConstantTime	Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.321 (custom)

Credits

Robert Rothenberg

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