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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2024-13939

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
CPANSec

Description

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. As stated in the documentation: "If the lengths of the strings are different, because equals returns false right away the size of the secret string may be leaked (but not its contents)." This is similar to CVE-2020-36829

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

FRACTAL String::Compare::ConstantTime

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 0.321affected

References