CVE-2015-9238: Secure-Compare Project Secure-Compare

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

secure-compare 3.0.0 and below do not actually compare two strings properly. compare was actually comparing the first argument with itself, meaning the check passed for any two strings of the same length.

Affected products

• Secure-Compare Project Secure-Compare: before 3.0.1 (fixed in 3.0.1)

Published 2018-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.