Insecure Randomness Affecting com.orientechnologies:orientdb-core package, versions (,2.1.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMORIENTECHNOLOGIES-30333
  • published15 Jan 2016
  • disclosed15 Jan 2016
  • creditPredrag Gruevski

Introduced: 15 Jan 2016

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

com.orientechnologies:orientdb-core The OServer.java file is responsible for auto-generating passwords by using the variable new Random(). This is Java's default random-number generator initialized with the current system time as a seed, which is not secure because it is easily predictable. The SecureRandom random-number generator was used as a fix.

CVSS Scores

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