Insecure Randomness Affecting websocket-client package, versions [,0.33.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WEBSOCKETCLIENT-40498
  • published21 Sept 2015
  • disclosed21 Sept 2015
  • creditPredrag Gruevski

Introduced: 21 Sep 2015

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

websocket_client is a WebSocket client for python.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness due to the using the uuid.uuid4() function which can produce predictable values and should not be used in security-sensitive context.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1