Analytics access via non-constant-time key comparison
Published Oct 10, 2024 · Updated Oct 11, 2024
Timing side channel in Gradio before 4.44 allows remote authenticated users to infer the monitoring key and access analytics. The analytics_dashboard route compares an attacker-controlled path key against app.analytics_key without constant-time behavior, so matching prefixes take measurably different time. Exploitation requires monitoring to be enabled and enough repeated requests to resolve timing differences; successful recovery exposes dashboard analytics.
Summary
What happened
Timing side channel in Gradio before 4.44 allows remote authenticated users to infer the monitoring key and access analytics. The analytics_dashboard route compares an attacker-controlled path key against app.analytics_key without constant-time behavior, so matching prefixes take measurably different time. Exploitation requires monitoring to be enabled and enough repeated requests to resolve timing differences; successful recovery exposes dashboard analytics.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-47869
- Published
- Oct 10, 2024
- Updated
- Oct 11, 2024
- Vendor
- Gradio
- Product
- Gradio
- Classifications
- CWE-203, T1110
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Oct 10, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 11, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 4.44
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