GHSA-q7pg-9pr4-mrp2
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q7pg-9pr4-mrp2
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/09/GHSA-q7pg-9pr4-mrp2/GHSA-q7pg-9pr4-mrp2.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-q7pg-9pr4-mrp2
- Aliases
- Published
- 2025-09-12T21:11:13Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-12T21:57:19.184786Z
- Severity
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- 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- httpsig-rs: HMAC verification is vulnerable to timing attack
- Details
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Summary
HMAC signature comparison is not timing-safe and is vulnerable to timing attacks.
Details
SharedKey::sign()returns aVec<u8>which has a non-constant-time equality implementation.Hmac::finalize()returns a constant-time wrapper (<code>CtOutput</code>) which was discarded. Alternatively,Hmachas a constant-timeverify()method.The problem reported here is due to the following lines in
SharedKey::sign()of the previous code:let mut mac = HmacSha256::new_from_slice(key).unwrap(); mac.update(data); Ok(mac.finalize().into_bytes().to_vec())and the merged update changes the third line to directly verify with
verify_slice.Impact
Anyone who uses HS256 signature verification is vulnerably to Timing Attack that allows the attacker to forge a signature.
- Database specific
{ "github_reviewed": true, "nvd_published_at": "2025-09-12T14:15:41Z", "severity": "MODERATE", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-208" ], "github_reviewed_at": "2025-09-12T21:11:13Z" }- References
Affected packages
crates.io / httpsig
Package
- Name
- httpsig
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- Purl
- pkg:cargo/httpsig