Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10535

5.9
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

csrf-lite is a cross-site request forgery protection library for framework-less node sites. csrf-lite uses `===`, a fail first string comparison, instead of a time constant string comparison This enables an attacker to guess the secret in no more than (16*18)288 guesses, instead of the 16^18 guesses required were the timing attack not present.
Published Date May 31, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory