CVE-2024-13939CWE-208
String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string
High · published March 28, 2025
What it is
String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string.
As stated in the documentation: "If the lengths of the strings are different, because equals returns false right away the size of the secret string may be leaked (but not its contents)."
This is similar to CVE-2020-36829
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.5 · HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00377 · 30.5th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-208 · Observable Timing Discrepancy
- Published
- 2025-03-28T02:05Z
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