Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy in basic-auth-connect - CVE-2024-47178

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Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy in basic-auth-connect - CVE-2024-47178

Published: December 13, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU101764
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-47178
CWE-ID: CWE-208
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to basic-auth-connect uses a timing-unsafe equality comparison that can leak timing information. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.


Affected software

basic-auth-connect
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps

How to mitigate CVE-2024-47178

Install updates from vendor's website.

basic-auth-connect - update to 1.1.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.8.0

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