CVEs-PoC/2021/CVE-2021-33880.md

### [CVE-2021-33880](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-33880)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/PalindromeLabs/awesome-websocket-security