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CVE-2021-33880
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-06-06T15:15:07.407 · Last modified 2026-06-17T03:55:19.517

Summary

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

Affected products

websockets_project — websockets

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References

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