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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2018-8023 EUVD-2018-0571GHSA-c8cc-p3j7-4c7f

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.mesos:mesos

Published Sep 21, 2018 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by apache

Description

Apache Mesos can be configured to require authentication to call the Executor HTTP API using JSON Web Token (JWT). In Apache Mesos versions pre-1.4.2, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.6.0 the comparison of the generated HMAC value against the provided signature in the JWT implementation used is vulnerable to a timing attack because instead of a constant-time string comparison routine a standard `==` operator has been used. A malicious actor can therefore abuse the timing difference of when the JWT validation function returns to reveal the correct HMAC value.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Mesos versions prior to 1.4.2, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.6.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.apache.mesos:mesos < 1.4.2 1.4.2 GHSA-c8cc-p3j7-4c7f
Maven org.apache.mesos:mesos >= 1.5.0, < 1.5.2 1.5.2 GHSA-c8cc-p3j7-4c7f
Maven org.apache.mesos:mesos >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.1 1.6.1 GHSA-c8cc-p3j7-4c7f

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