CVE-2015-7576: Timing attack vulnerability in basic authentication
(updated )
Due to the way that Action Controller compares user names and passwords in basic authentication authorization code, it is possible for an attacker to analyze the time taken by a response and intuit the password. You can tell you application is vulnerable to this attack by looking for http_basic_authenticate_with
method calls in your application.
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