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Insecure Randomness Affecting io.ratpack:ratpack-session Open this link in a new tab package, versions [,1.6.1)

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JAVA-IORATPACK-174598

  • published

    7 May 2019

  • disclosed

    7 May 2019

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 7 May 2019

CVE-2019-11808 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-331 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade io.ratpack:ratpack-session to version 1.6.1 or higher.

Overview

io.ratpack:ratpack-session is a that allows supports for HTTP sessions within Ratpack applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness. Session IDs are generated using a weak PRNG within the ThreadLocalRandom class. An attacker could abuse this vulnerability to determine a small window for the server start time and obtain a session ID value. This vulnerability could be abused to theoretically determine the sequence of session IDs.