CVE-2016-10535: Csrf-Lite Project Csrf-Lite

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

csrf-lite is a cross-site request forgery protection library for framework-less node sites. csrf-lite uses `===`, a fail first string comparison, instead of a time constant string comparison This enables an attacker to guess the secret in no more than (16*18)288 guesses, instead of the 16^18 guesses required were the timing attack not present.

Affected products

• Csrf-Lite Project Csrf-Lite: up to and including 0.1.1

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