Insecure Randomness Affecting otp-generator package, versions <3.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-OTPGENERATOR-1655480
  • published 18 Oct 2021
  • disclosed 19 Sep 2021
  • credit Mateusz Wojciechowski

How to fix?

Upgrade otp-generator to version 3.0.0 or higher.

Overview

otp-generator is an One time password generator

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness due to insecure generation of random one-time passwords, which may allow a brute-force attack.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

9.8 critical