CVE-2024-23771

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23771
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-23771.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-23771
Downstream
Published
2024-01-22T04:15:07Z
Modified
2025-10-21T17:35:16.823211Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

darkhttpd before 1.15 uses strcmp (which is not constant time) to verify authentication, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass authentication via a timing side channel.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
f477619d49f3c4de9ad59bd194265a48ddc03f04

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.13
v1.14

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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        "source": "https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd/commit/f477619d49f3c4de9ad59bd194265a48ddc03f04",
        "target": {
            "function": "process_request",
            "file": "darkhttpd.c"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "id": "CVE-2024-23771-76dc99a8",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "digest": {
            "length": 843.0,
            "function_hash": "301461089074725362514853166162378530787"
        }
    },
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd/commit/f477619d49f3c4de9ad59bd194265a48ddc03f04",
        "target": {
            "file": "darkhttpd.c"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "id": "CVE-2024-23771-d16d511e",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
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]