CVE-2026-70658

pay-rails/pay: non-constant-time HMAC comparison in Paddle Billing webhook signature verifier

State
Published
Severity
7.4 High
Published
Sep 14, 2026
Updated
Sep 14, 2026
Reserved
Aug 4, 2026

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Description

Pay is a payments engine for Ruby on Rails 6.0 and higher. Prior to 11.6.2, Pay::Webhooks::PaddleBillingController#valid_signature? in app/controllers/pay/webhooks/paddle_billing_controller.rb compares the computed 64-character SHA-256 HMAC with the attacker-controlled h1 token from the Paddle-Signature header using Ruby String#==. An unauthenticated remote attacker who can repeatedly submit requests to /pay/webhooks/paddle_billing and obtain sufficiently precise timing measurements can infer matching digest prefixes and recover a valid signature. A forged accepted webhook is enqueued through Pay::Webhooks::ProcessJob and can cause a host application to update billing state, provision paid features, record refunds, or trigger customer notifications. This issue is fixed in version 11.6.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy

Affected Products

ProductVersions
paypay-rails
  • < 11.6.2Affected

References

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