CVE-2016-10535

MEDIUM

csrf-lite < 0.1.1 - Timing Attack via String Comparison

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

csrf-lite is a cross-site request forgery protection library for framework-less node sites. csrf-lite uses `===`, a fail first string comparison, instead of a time constant string comparison This enables an attacker to guess the secret in no more than (16*18)288 guesses, instead of the 16^18 guesses required were the timing attack not present.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/94
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/isaacs/csrf-lite/pull/1

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0130
EPSS Percentile 66.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-310 CWE-208
Status published
Products (2)
csrf-lite_project/csrf-lite < 0.1.1
npm/csrf-lite 0 - 0.1.2npm
Published May 31, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026