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GHSA-4gpm-r23h-gprw: generator-jhipster allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character

JHipster generator-jhipster before 2.23.0 allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character that is different. Attackers can guess tokens by brute forcing one character at a time and observing the timing. This of course drastically reduces the search space to a linear amount of guesses based on the token length times the possible characters.

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generator-jhipster allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 31, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 31, 2023

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JHipster generator-jhipster before 2.23.0 allows a timing attack against validateToken due to a string comparison that stops at the first character that is different. Attackers can guess tokens by brute forcing one character at a time and observing the timing. This of course drastically reduces the search space to a linear amount of guesses based on the token length times the possible characters.