CVE-2020-1926

Timing attack in Cookie signature verification

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 16, 2021
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Dec 2, 2019

Description

Apache Hive cookie signature verification used a non constant time comparison which is known to be vulnerable to timing attacks. This could allow recovery of another users cookie signature. The issue was addressed in Apache Hive 2.3.8

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-208 Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache HiveApache Software Foundation	Apache Hive to before 2.3.8Affected

References

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-22708
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd186eedff68102ba1e68059a808101c5aa587e11542c7dcd26e7b9d7%40%3Cuser.hive.apache.org%3E

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