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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2024-23771

critical

CVE-2024-23771

darkhttpd before 1.15 uses strcmp (which is not constant time) to verify authentication, which makes it easier for…

Published Modified CWE 203
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD.

Description

darkhttpd before 1.15 uses strcmp (which is not constant time) to verify authentication, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass authentication via a timing side channel.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.20darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine 3.21darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine 3.22darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine 3.23darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine 3.24darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine edgedarkhttpd1.15-r0
root.io alpine 3.18darkhttpd, rootio-darkhttpd1.14-r10071, 1.14-r10072, 1.14-r10073, 1.14-r10074
root.io alpine 3.19darkhttpd, rootio-darkhttpd1.14-r10071, 1.14-r10072, 1.14-r10073, 1.14-r10074
Show all 10 entries from 8 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.20darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine 3.21darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine 3.22darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine 3.23darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine 3.24darkhttpd1.15-r0
alpine edgedarkhttpd1.15-r0
root.io alpine 3.18darkhttpd1.14-r10071, 1.14-r10072, 1.14-r10073, 1.14-r10074
root.io alpine 3.18rootio-darkhttpd1.14-r10071, 1.14-r10072, 1.14-r10073, 1.14-r10074
root.io alpine 3.19darkhttpd1.14-r10071, 1.14-r10072, 1.14-r10073, 1.14-r10074
root.io alpine 3.19rootio-darkhttpd1.14-r10071, 1.14-r10072, 1.14-r10073, 1.14-r10074

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.