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Vulnerability details: VCID-4g76-upmf-sqh5
Vulnerability ID VCID-4g76-upmf-sqh5
Aliases CVE-2022-40482
Summary The authentication method in Laravel 8.x through 9.x before 9.32.0 was discovered to be vulnerable to user enumeration via timeless timing attacks with HTTP/2 multiplexing. This is caused by the early return inside the hasValidCredentials method in the Illuminate\Auth\SessionGuard class when a user is found to not exist.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.00481 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-40482
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://ephort.dk/blog/laravel-timing-attack-vulnerability/
ssvc Track https://ephort.dk/blog/laravel-timing-attack-vulnerability/
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/ephort/laravel-user-enumeration-demo
ssvc Track https://github.com/ephort/laravel-user-enumeration-demo
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/44069
ssvc Track https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/44069
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v9.32.0
ssvc Track https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v9.32.0
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-40482
44069 https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/44069
CVE-2022-40482 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40482
laravel-timing-attack-vulnerability https://ephort.dk/blog/laravel-timing-attack-vulnerability/
laravel-user-enumeration-demo https://github.com/ephort/laravel-user-enumeration-demo
v9.32.0 https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v9.32.0
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://ephort.dk/blog/laravel-timing-attack-vulnerability/
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-02-03T20:49:48Z/ Found at https://ephort.dk/blog/laravel-timing-attack-vulnerability/
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/ephort/laravel-user-enumeration-demo
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-02-03T20:49:48Z/ Found at https://github.com/ephort/laravel-user-enumeration-demo
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/44069
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-02-03T20:49:48Z/ Found at https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/44069
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v9.32.0
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-02-03T20:49:48Z/ Found at https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v9.32.0
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.65586
EPSS Score 0.00481
Published At June 11, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-11T17:41:29.531517+00:00 Vulnrichment Import https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2022/40xxx/CVE-2022-40482.json 38.6.0