CVE-2023-46739: Timing attack can leak user passwords

First published: Wed Jan 03 2024(Updated: )

A vulnerability was found during in the CubeFS master component 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. CubeFS has not seen any evidence of this being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability was found during a security audit conducted by [Ada Logics](https://adalogics.com/) in collaboration with [OSTIF](https://ostif.org/) and the [CNCF](https://www.cncf.io/). The issue has been patched in v3.3.1. For impacted users, there is no other way to mitigate the issue besides upgrading.

Credit: security-advisories@github.com security-advisories@github.com

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
go/github.com/cubefs/cubefs	<3.3.1	3.3.1
Linuxfoundation Cubefs	<3.3.1

Remedy

https://github.com/cubefs/cubefs/commit/6a0d5fa45a77ff20c752fa9e44738bf5d86c84bd

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