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Cryptographic Backdoor Affecting generate-password package, versions <1.4.1

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-GENERATEPASSWORD-73498
  • published 10 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 14 Dec 2018
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 14 Dec 2018

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How to fix?

Upgrade generate-password to version 1.4.1 or higher.

Overview

generate-password is a relatively extensive library for generating random and unique passwords.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Backdoor. It generates random values that are biased towards certain characters depending on the chosen character sets. This may result in guessable passwords.