CVE-2025-53940CWE-208

Quiet uses insecure, inconsistent verification on local backend token

High · published July 24, 2025

CVSS v4.0
8.5
EPSS
4%
Percentile
89.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.03784 · 89.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-208 · Observable Timing Discrepancy
Published
2025-07-24T22:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUL 22:23Z
    Quiet uses insecure, inconsistent verification on local backend token
    cvelistv5