Cryptographic Backdoor Affecting generate-password package, versions <1.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-GENERATEPASSWORD-73498
  • published10 Jan 2019
  • disclosed14 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Dec 2018

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1