Insecure Randomness Affecting pypinksign package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYPINKSIGN-6068108
  • published17 Nov 2023
  • disclosed16 Nov 2023
  • creditgxx777

Introduced: 16 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-48056  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for pypinksign.

Overview

pypinksign is a Basic NPKI module.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness due to improper encryption operations. An attacker could exploit the patterns of the encrypted data, that is less secure.

Workaround

Users should not set default constant IV for CBC encryption. Users should modify the encryption process to generate a random IV each time an encryption operation is performed.

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