CVE-2024-13939 — String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess…

CVE-2024-13939

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. As stated in the documentation: "If the lengths of the strings are different, because equals returns false right away the size of the secret string may be leaked (but not its contents)." This is similar to CVE-2020-36829

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
FRACTAL / String::Compare::ConstantTime	affected 0 through 0.321

CWE

CWE-208

References

https://metacpan.org/release/FRACTAL/String-Compare-ConstantTime-0.321/view/lib/String/Compare/ConstantTime.pm#TIMING-SIDE-CHANNEL

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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