cve/2021/CVE-2021-33880.md

CVE-2021-33880

Description

The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.

POC

Reference

• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/PalindromeLabs/awesome-websocket-security