Vulnerability · Published Jan 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2023-46739Timing attack can leak user passwords
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in cubefs from cubefs. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 29% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
CubeFS is an open-source cloud-native file storage system. A vulnerability was found during in the CubeFS master component in versions prior to 3.3.1 that could allow an untrusted attacker to steal user passwords by carrying out a timing attack. The root case of the vulnerability was that CubeFS used raw string comparison of passwords. The vulnerable part of CubeFS was the UserService of the master component. The UserService gets instantiated when starting the server of the master component. The issue has been patched in v3.3.1. For impacted users, there is no other way to mitigate the issue besides upgrading.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/cubefs/cubefs | 3.3.1 | GHSA-8579-7p32-f398 |
| Go | github.com/cubefs/cubefs | no fix listed | GO-2024-2432 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-203 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L