Insecure Randomness Affecting fluentd package, versions <0.14.12, >=0.14.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-FLUENTD-20372
  • published 12 Jun 2017
  • disclosed 29 Jan 2017
  • credit Satoshi Moris Tagomori

Introduced: 29 Jan 2017

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-330 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade fluentd to version 0.14.12 or higher.

Overview

fluentd is an open source data collector designed to scale and simplify log management. It can collect, process and ship many kinds of data in near real-time.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness. Random number generator used by OpenSSL produce predictable values and should not be used in security-sensitive context.

References

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

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