CVE-2023-25806

Time discrepancy in authentication responses in OpenSearch

Published Mar 2, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-0980 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-c6wg-cm5x-rqvj OpenSearch has time discrepancy in authentication responses
History
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Mar 5, 2025, 9:28 PM
Reserved
Feb 15, 2023, 4:34 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 2, 2023, 4:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:42 AM