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CVE-2017-12872

5.9 mediumEPSS 1.5%

Medium (5.9). EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and (2) SimpleSAML_Session class in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to conduct timing side-channel attacks by leveraging use of the standard comparison operator to compare secret material against user input.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-200
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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