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Insecure Randomness Affecting github.com/masterminds/goutils package, versions <1.1.1

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.15% (52nd percentile)
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NVD
9.1 critical
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Red Hat
7 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMMASTERMINDSGOUTILS-3121153
  • published 16 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 1 Jul 2022
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 1 Jul 2022

CVE-2021-4238 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-330 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/masterminds/goutils to version 1.1.1 or higher.

Overview

github.com/masterminds/goutils is a provides users with utility functions to manipulate strings in various ways.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness when randomly-generated alphanumeric strings contain significantly less entropy than expected, the RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric functions always return strings containing at least one digit from 0 to 9. This significantly reduces the amount of entropy in short strings generated by these functions.

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