CVE-2017-8342 (published 2017-04-30T15:59Z)

Radicale before 1.1.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0rc2 is prone to timing oracles and simple brute-force attacks when using the htpasswd authentication method.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
CVSS v3 base score: 8.1, HIGH (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-362
cwe_name: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
description: The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
extended_description: 
            This can have security implications when the expected synchronization is in security-critical code, such as recording whether a user is authenticated or modifying important state information that should not be influenced by an outsider.
            A race condition occurs within concurrent environments, and is effectively a property of a code sequence. Depending on the context, a code sequence may be in the form of a function call, a small number of instructions, a series of program invocations, etc.
            A race condition violates these properties, which are closely related:
               
                  Exclusivity - the code sequence is given exclusive access to the shared resource, i.e., no other code sequence can modify properties of the shared resource before the original sequence has completed execution.
                  Atomicity - the code sequence is behaviorally atomic, i.e., no other thread or process can concurrently execute the same sequence of instructions (or a subset) against the same resource.
               
            A race condition exists when an "interfering code sequence" can still access the shared resource, violating exclusivity. Programmers may assume that certain code sequences execute too quickly to be affected by an interfering code sequence; when they are not, this violates atomicity. For example, the single "x++" statement may appear atomic at the code layer, but it is actually non-atomic at the instruction layer, since it involves a read (the original value of x), followed by a computation (x+1), followed by a write (save the result to x).
            The interfering code sequence could be "trusted" or "untrusted." A trusted interfering code sequence occurs within the product; it cannot be modified by the attacker, and it can only be invoked indirectly. An untrusted interfering code sequence can be authored directly by the attacker, and typically it is external to the vulnerable product.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale
author: Guillaume Ayoub
author_date: 2017-04-19 13:48:30+02:00
msg: Random timer to avoid timing oracles and simple bruteforce attacks

Important note: this is a security fix.
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale
repo_name: Kozea/Radicale
description: A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server.
repo_language: Python
owner: Kozea
file_changes: filename: auth.py
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ import base64
 import functools
 import hashlib
 import os
+import random
+import time
 from importlib import import_module
 
 
@@ -192,6 +194,8 @@ class Auth(BaseAuth):
                 line = line.strip()
                 if line:
                     login, hash_value = line.split(":")
-                    if login == user:
-                        return self.verify(hash_value, password)
+                    if login == user and self.verify(hash_value, password):
+                        return True
+        # Random timer to avoid timing oracles and simple bruteforce attacks
+        time.sleep(1 + random.random())
         return False

programming_language: Python