CVE-2025-53940

High

Description

Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, Discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own. In versions 6.1.0-alpha.4 and below, Quiet's API for backend/frontend communication was using an insecure, not constant-time comparison function for token verification. This allowed for a potential timing attack where an attacker would try different token values and observe tiny differences in the response time (wrong characters fail faster) to guess the whole token one character at a time. This is fixed in version 6.0.1.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.5
Exploit probability—
ProductQuiet
PublishedJul 24, 2025
First seenJul 24, 2025
Weakness typeCWE-208CWE-208

How to fix

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Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
TryQuiet quiet< 6.0.1—

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