DEBIAN-CVE-2021-33880

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-33880
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Upstream
Published
2021-06-06T15:15:07Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:15:05.954994Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basicauthprotocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / python-websockets

Package

Name
python-websockets
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-websockets?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.1-1+deb11u1

Affected versions

8.*

8.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / python-websockets

Package

Name
python-websockets
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-websockets?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / python-websockets

Package

Name
python-websockets
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-websockets?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / python-websockets

Package

Name
python-websockets
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-websockets?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}