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CVE-2024-13939

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CVE-2024-13939

Published: Mar 28, 2025

Modified: Mar 28, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

String::Compare::ConstantTime for Perl through 0.321 is vulnerable to timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. As stated in the documentation: "If the lengths of the strings are different, because equals returns false right away the size of the secret string may be leaked (but not its contents)." This is similar to CVE-2020-36829

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FRACTAL

String::Compare::ConstantTime

affected
0 - <= 0.321

Weaknesses (CWE)

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