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CVE-2023-25806GHSA-C6WG-CM5X-RQVJ

Time discrepancy in authentication responses in OpenSearch

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.3.9, 2.6.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

OpenSearch Security is a plugin for OpenSearch that offers encryption, authentication and authorization. There is an observable discrepancy in the authentication response time between calls where the user provided exists and calls where it does not. This issue only affects calls using the internal basic identity provider (IdP), and not other externally configured IdPs. Patches were released in versions 1.3.9 and 2.6.0, there are no workarounds.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • opensearch-project security

    fixed in 1.3.9; From 2.0.0 · fixed in 2.6.0

  • org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-securityMaven

    fixed in 1.3.9

  • org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-securityMaven

    From 2.0.0 · fixed in 2.6.0

References 1

GitHub · opensearch-project/security