CVE-2025-59350
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.003 · 27 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Dragonfly is an open source P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system. Prior to 2.1.0, the access control mechanism for the Proxy feature uses simple string comparisons and is therefore vulnerable to timing attacks. An attacker may try to guess the password one character at a time by sending all possible characters to a vulnerable mechanism and measuring the comparison instruction’s execution times. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.0.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.7–5.3
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affected products (5)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-c2fc-9q9c-5486Dragonfly vulnerable to timing attacks against Proxy’s basic authentication2025-09-17ghsa · osvUS
### Impact The access control mechanism for the Proxy feature uses simple string comparisons and is therefore vulnerable to timing attacks. An attacker may try to guess the password one character at a time by sending all possible characters to a vulnerable mechanism and measuring the comparison instruction’s execution times. The vulnerability is shown in figure 8.1, where both the username and password are compared with a short-circuiting equality operation. ```golang if user != proxy.basicAuth.Username || pass != proxy.basicAuth.Password { ``` It is currently undetermined what an attacker may be able to do with access to the proxy password. ### Patches - Dragonfy v2.1.0 and above. ### Workarounds There are no effective workarounds, beyond upgrading. ### References A third party security audit was performed by Trail of Bits, you can see the [full report](https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly/blob/main/docs/security/dragonfly-comprehensive-report-2023.pdf). If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please email us at [dragonfly-maintainers@googlegroups.com](mailto:dragonfly-maintainers@googlegroups.com).
- GO-2025-3972Dragonfly vulnerable to timing attacks against Proxy’s basic authentication in d7y.io/dragonfly2025-09-24vendor · osvUS
Dragonfly vulnerable to timing attacks against Proxy’s basic authentication in d7y.io/dragonfly
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references (7)
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- https://d7y.io/Patchcnnvd
- https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly/blob/main/docs/security/dragonfly-comprehensive-report-2023.pdfcnnvd
- https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly/security/advisories/GHSA-c2fc-9q9c-5486cnnvd
- https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly/blob/main/docs/security/dragonfly-comprehensive-report-2023.pdfenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly/security/advisories/GHSA-c2fc-9q9c-5486enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly/blob/main/docs/security/dragonfly-comprehensive-report-2023.pdfProductnvd
- https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly/security/advisories/GHSA-c2fc-9q9c-5486PatchThird Party Advisorynvd
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