Cryptographic Backdoor Affecting generate-password package, versions <1.4.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-GENERATEPASSWORD-73498
- published 10 Jan 2019
- disclosed 14 Dec 2018
- credit Unknown
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.
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CVSS Scores
version 3.1