Vulnerability in Tryquiet Quiet

CVE-2025-53940

Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, Discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own. In versions 6.1.0-alpha.4 and below, Quiet's API for backend/frontend communication was using an insecure, not constant-time comparison function for token verification. This allowed for a potential timing attack where an attacker would try different token values and observe tiny differences in the response time (wrong characters fail faster) to guess the whole token one character at a time. This is fixed in version 6.0.1.

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EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.036 (88.9th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-53940: rose from 0.028 to 0.036.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.036 · change: +0.007

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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