CubeFS is an open-source cloud-native file storage system. A vulnerability was found during in the CubeFS master component in versions prior to 3.3.1 that could allow an untrusted attacker to steal user passwords by carrying out a timing attack. The root case of the vulnerability was that CubeFS used raw string comparison of passwords. The vulnerable part of CubeFS was the UserService of the master component. The UserService gets instantiated when starting the server of the master component. The issue has been patched in v3.3.1. For impacted users, there is no other way to mitigate the issue besides upgrading.
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-0290 CubeFS is an open-source cloud-native file storage system. A vulnerability was found during in the CubeFS master component in versions prior to 3.3.1 that could allow an untrusted attacker to steal user passwords by carrying out a timing attack. The root case of the vulnerability was that CubeFS used raw string comparison of passwords. The vulnerable part of CubeFS was the UserService of the master component. The UserService gets instantiated when starting the server of the master component. The issue has been patched in v3.3.1. For impacted users, there is no other way to mitigate the issue besides upgrading.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8579-7p32-f398 CubeFS timing attack can leak user passwords
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History

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-17T20:29:07.308Z

Reserved: 2023-10-25T14:30:33.753Z

Link: CVE-2023-46739

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T20:53:21.310Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-03T17:15:10.303

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:29:12.053

Link: CVE-2023-46739

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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