🛡️ CVE-2015-20110 — generator-jhipster

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-208 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2015-20110 is recorded against 1 package.

  • generator-jhipster

Timeline and source

Published on 31 October 2023 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-208
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-10-31
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
generator-jhipster — —

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