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.
Published: 2023-10-31
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-2645 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.
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History

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Jhipster Jhipster
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-06T18:28:17.077Z

Reserved: 2023-10-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-20110

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:58:26.495Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-31T03:15:07.613

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:26:34.023

Link: CVE-2015-20110

cve-icon Redhat

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