Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nodejs (opens in a new tab)
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- published24 Sept 2022
- disclosed5 Dec 2022
Introduced: 24 Sep 2022
CVE-2022-35255 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs package and not the nodejs package as distributed by Debian.
A weak randomness in WebCrypto keygen vulnerability exists in Node.js 18 due to a change with EntropySource() in SecretKeyGenTraits::DoKeyGen() in src/crypto/crypto_keygen.cc. There are two problems with this: 1) It does not check the return value, it assumes EntropySource() always succeeds, but it can (and sometimes will) fail. 2) The random data returned byEntropySource() may not be cryptographically strong and therefore not suitable as keying material.