CVE-2015-20110

HIGH

JHipster < 2.23.0 - Timing Attack via Token Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0059
EPSS Percentile 43.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-307
Status published
Products (2)
jhipster/jhipster < 2.23.0
npm/generator-jhipster 0 - 2.23.0npm
Published Oct 31, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026