Use a timing-safe equality check for passwords #133
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* upstream/master: (35 commits) Dockerfile: use relative path instead of $PWD for CMD Update docker oneliner and fix clone task Clone exact vscode release branch when build task (coder#167) Add -t flag to docker example (coder#181) Reverts parts of my last PR (coder#177) Fix build and Dockerfile issues (coder#176) Add nginx reverse proxy guide for selfhosted Use a timing-safe equality check for passwords (coder#133) Open websocket on same path as page (coder#149) Adhere to XDG base directory spec for dataDir and logDir (coder#156) Improve github issue template (coder#162) Fix typo: environemnt -> environment (coder#159) Add back web class Move upx compression behind an env flag ci: enable travis npm cache (coder#110) Improve .dockerignore (coder#111) Feature/1.32.0 update (coder#117) Update grammar on README (coder#139) inital -> initial (coder#135) Handle arch in dockerfile and add PR template (coder#109) ...
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As the current implementation of password checking uses
===to check equality, it is susceptible to timing attacks - see this article for more information.This PR uses
safe-compareto compare passwords without the possibility of a timing attack.(Note that I could not test this change, as I was unable to successfully build the project. Please confirm that this change does not break anything before merging it!)