CVE-2024-47178 – basic-auth-connect's callback uses time unsafe string comparison

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2024-47178

basic-auth-connect is Connect's Basic Auth middleware in its own module. basic-auth-connect < 1.1.0 uses a timing-unsafe equality comparison that can leak timing information. This issue has been fixed in basic-auth-connect 1.1.0. • https://github.com/expressjs/basic-auth-connect/commit/bac1e6a8530e1efd0028800b9b588a37adb0d203 https://github.com/expressjs/basic-auth-connect/security/advisories/GHSA-7p89-p6hx-q4fw • CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy •