PT-2018-4551 · Unknown · Secure-Compare

Daguej · Published 2018-05-31 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2015-9238

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions secure-compare versions prior to 3.0.1

Description The issue arises from the secure-compare function comparing the first argument with itself instead of comparing two different strings. This results in the function always returning true when comparing two strings of the same length, regardless of their actual contents.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.0.1, upgrade to version 3.0.1 or later.

Fix

Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-134

CWE-697

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-9238

GHSA-H9X2-5RM7-X4GM

Affected Products

Secure-Compare

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9238 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-h9x2-5rm7-x4gm · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/vdemedes/secure-compare/pull/1 · Note
• https://github.com/vadimdemedes/secure-compare/commit/dd1ff1ac0122de7e0af4f00c61ed73261062394a · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/50 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/50 · Note