CVE-2023-25806

Time discrepancy in authentication responses in OpenSearch

Published: Mar 2, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-208

5.3MEDIUM

Description

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:LConfidentiality

Low

I:NIntegrity

None

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-208 CWE-203

Affected Products

Amazon

commercial·US

OpenSearchOn-premDatabase

Databases / data-warehouse-analytics

opensearch securityOn-premSaaS Service

Cloud & SaaS / saas-application

opensearch-project

oss-projectaka data-prepper, security, anomaly-detection

securityMixed

Databases / nosql

Maven

package-ecosystem

org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security

OSS Libraries

ООО «Ред Софт»

commercial·RUaka red soft

РЕД ОСOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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References

https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/security/advisories/GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj

github.com

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25806

nvd.nist.gov

https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/pull/2472

github.com

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