CVE-2016-10535: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

February 18, 2019 (updated January 8, 2021)

csrf-lite is a cross-site request forgery protection library for framework-less node sites. csrf-lite uses ===, a fail first string comparison, instead of a time constant string comparison This enables an attacker to guess the secret in no more than (16*18)288 guesses, instead of the 16^18 guesses required were the timing attack not present.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-hjhr-r3gq-qvp6
github.com/isaacs/csrf-lite/pull/1
nodesecurity.io/advisories/94
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10535
www.npmjs.com/advisories/94

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