Insecure Randomness Affecting otp-generator package, versions <3.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-OTPGENERATOR-1655480
  • published18 Oct 2021
  • disclosed19 Sept 2021
  • creditMateusz Wojciechowski

Introduced: 19 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-23451  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

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