Advisory details:
gitlab / gem/actionpack/CVE-2015-7576
| Advisory ID | gitlab/gem/actionpack/CVE-2015-7576 |
| Aliases |
CVE-2015-7576
|
| Summary | Timing attack vulnerability in basic authentication Due to the way that Action Controller compares user names and passwords in basic authentication authorization code, it is possible for an attacker to analyze the time taken by a response and intuit the password. You can tell you application is vulnerable to this attack by looking for `http_basic_authenticate_with` method calls in your application. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted Severity | 0.0 |
| Risk | |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches | Package Commit Patches Details |
| There are no known CWE. |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/ANv0HDHEC3k |
No exploits are available.
No EPSS data available for this advisory.
| Patch URL | |
|---|---|
| There are no known patches. | |
| Exploitability (E) | Access Vector (AV) | Access Complexity (AC) | Authentication (Au) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
high functional unproven proof_of_concept not_defined |
local adjacent_network network |
high medium low |
multiple single none |
none partial complete |
none partial complete |
none partial complete |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
There are no SSVC decisions available.