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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-33880

The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 python-websockets

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.1-1"}]}]

Debian:13 python-websockets

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.1-1"}]}]

Debian:14 python-websockets

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.1-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org