CVE-2025-53940
Quiet uses insecure, inconsistent verification on local backend token
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.5 High
- Published
- Jul 24, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 25, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 14, 2025
Description
Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, Discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own. In versions 6.1.0-alpha.4 and below, Quiet's API for backend/frontend communication was using an insecure, not constant-time comparison function for token verification. This allowed for a potential timing attack where an attacker would try different token values and observe tiny differences in the response time (wrong characters fail faster) to guess the whole token one character at a time. This is fixed in version 6.0.1.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.5 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
quietTryQuiet |
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References
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