# CVE-2014-125055: agnivade easy-scrypt scrypt.go VerifyPassphrase timing discrepancy

- Also known as: GHSA-R894-5R7V-7RX3, GO-2023-1294
- Severity: CVSS 2.6 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.0.0
- Published: 2023-01-07 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- agnivade easy-scrypt: version range not reported
- github.com/agnivade/easy-scrypt (Go): fixed in 1.0.0

## Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in agnivade easy-scrypt. Affected is the function VerifyPassphrase of the file scrypt.go. The manipulation leads to observable timing discrepancy. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Upgrading to version 1.0.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 477c10cf3b144ddf96526aa09f5fdea613f21812. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217596.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on agnivade easy-scrypt, github.com/agnivade/easy-scrypt, upgrade to a fixed version (1.0.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://vuldb.com/?id.217596
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217596
- https://github.com/agnivade/easy-scrypt/commit/477c10cf3b144ddf96526aa09f5fdea613f21812
- https://github.com/agnivade/easy-scrypt/releases/tag/v1.0.0

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