What is CVE-2016-10535?

CVE-2016-10535 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Csrf-Lite Project, classified under CWE-208. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-05-31.

How severe is CVE-2016-10535?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Csrf-Lite Project

CVE-2016-10535

csrf-lite is a cross-site request forgery protection library for framework-less node sites. csrf-lite uses `===`, a fail first string comparison, instead of a time constant string comparison This enables an attacker to guess the secret in no more than (16*18)288 guesses, instead of the 16^18 guesses required were the timing attack not present.

EPSS: 0.013 (67.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Csrf-lite_project Csrf-lite
Hackerone Csrf-lite Node Module — versions <=0.1.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

support@hackerone.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
support@hackerone.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10535?: CVE-2016-10535 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Csrf-Lite Project, classified under CWE-208. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-05-31.
How severe is CVE-2016-10535?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.