VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-20110

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.59%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-10-31
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-307

Primary references