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CVE-2016-10535

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-208

Description

csrf-lite is a cross-site request forgery protection library for framework-less node sites. csrf-lite uses `===`, a fail first string comparison, instead of a time constant string comparison This enables an attacker to guess the secret in no more than (16*18)288 guesses, instead of the 16^18 guesses required were the timing attack not present.

Affected products

• HackerOne csrf-lite node module: through 0.1.1

References

• https://github.com/isaacs/csrf-lite/pull/1
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/94
• https://github.com/isaacs/csrf-lite/pull/1
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/94

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