CVE-2023-25806 (GCVE-0-2023-25806)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-02 03:04
Modified
2025-03-05 21:28
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy
Summary
OpenSearch Security is a plugin for OpenSearch that offers encryption, authentication and authorization. There is an observable discrepancy in the authentication response time between calls where the user provided exists and calls where it does not. This issue only affects calls using the internal basic identity provider (IdP), and not other externally configured IdPs. Patches were released in versions 1.3.9 and 2.6.0, there are no workarounds.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
opensearch-project security Version: < 1.3.9
Version: >= 2.0.0, < 2.6.0
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