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A vulnerability was found in jasypt up to 1.9.1. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Password Hash. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-9970. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in jasypt up to 1.9.1 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Password Hash. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

jasypt before 1.9.2 allows a timing attack against the password hash comparison.

The bug was discovered 02/20/2014. The weakness was published 05/21/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at sourceforge.net. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-9970 since 05/21/2017. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1186 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 103526 (RHEL 7 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2017:2808)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 236512 (Red Hat Update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (RHSA-2017:2808)).

Upgrading to version 1.9.2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 5 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (103526). Similar entries are available at VDB-80102, VDB-111715, VDB-112171 and VDB-116668. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• 1.9.0
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