The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.

Affected: PyPI: websockets

The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.

Affected: PyPI: websockets

The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.

Affected: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: python-websockets, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: python-websockets, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: python-websockets, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: python-websockets, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: python-websockets, Ubuntu:25.10: python-websockets, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: python-websockets

The aaugustin websockets library before 9.1 for Python has an Observable Timing Discrepancy on servers when HTTP Basic Authentication is enabled with basic_auth_protocol_factory(credentials=...). An attacker may be able to guess a password via a timing attack.