Use of Insufficiently Random Values Affecting npm18 package, versions <18.16.1-150400.9.9.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.94% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-NPM18-5746963
  • published29 Jun 2023
  • disclosed28 Jun 2023

Introduced: 28 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-31124  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 npm18 to version 18.16.1-150400.9.9.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream npm18 package and not the npm18 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARES_RANDOM_FILE will not be set, as seen when cross compiling aarch64 android. This will downgrade to using rand() as a fallback which could allow an attacker to take advantage of the lack of entropy by not using a CSPRNG. This issue was patched in version 1.19.1.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1