CVE-2026-41571: Go Bcrypt Empty Password Placeholder Auth Bypass
Authentication function compares the supplied plaintext against a placeholder bcrypt hash when the user's stored password is empty (a CWE-208 timing-attack mitigation), but the success guard only checks `err == nil` without also requiring that the stored password is non-empty. An unauthenticated attacker who submits the plaintext that matches the placeholder
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Authentication function compares the supplied plaintext against a placeholder bcrypt hash when the user's stored password is empty (a CWE-208 timing-attack mitigation), but the success guard only checks `err == nil` without also requiring that the stored password is non-empty. An unauthenticated attacker who submits the plaintext that matches the placeholder
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