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Insecure Randomness Affecting node package, versions [16.0.0,16.17.1) [18.0.0,18.9.1)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.12% (46th percentile)
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NVD
9.1 critical
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SUSE
8.2 high
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Red Hat
8.2 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-3035792
  • published 29 Sep 2022
  • disclosed 23 Sep 2022
  • credit Ben Noordhuis
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Introduced: 23 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-35255 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-330 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade node to version 16.17.1, 18.9.1 or higher.

Overview

node is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness via the EntropySource() function in SecretKeyGenTraits::DoKeyGen(), due to improper checking the return value, allowing an attacker to perform cryptographic attacks.