Impact
What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?
This vulnerability involves a timing attack in the way Gradio compares hashes for the analytics_dashboard function. Since the comparison is not done in constant time, an attacker could exploit this by measuring the response time of different requests to infer the correct hash byte-by-byte. This can lead to unauthorized access to the analytics dashboard, especially if the attacker can repeatedly query the system with different keys.
Patches
Yes, please upgrade to gradio>4.44 to mitigate this issue.
Workarounds
Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?
To mitigate the risk before applying the patch, developers can manually patch the analytics_dashboard dashboard to use a constant-time comparison function for comparing sensitive values, such as hashes. Alternatively, access to the analytics dashboard can be disabled.
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Impact
What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?
This vulnerability involves a timing attack in the way Gradio compares hashes for the
analytics_dashboardfunction. Since the comparison is not done in constant time, an attacker could exploit this by measuring the response time of different requests to infer the correct hash byte-by-byte. This can lead to unauthorized access to the analytics dashboard, especially if the attacker can repeatedly query the system with different keys.Patches
Yes, please upgrade to
gradio>4.44to mitigate this issue.Workarounds
Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?
To mitigate the risk before applying the patch, developers can manually patch the
analytics_dashboarddashboard to use a constant-time comparison function for comparing sensitive values, such as hashes. Alternatively, access to the analytics dashboard can be disabled.