Use of Insufficiently Random Values Affecting nodejs18-devel package, versions <18.16.1-150400.9.9.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.91% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-NODEJS18DEVEL-5746976
  • published29 Jun 2023
  • disclosed28 Jun 2023

Introduced: 28 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-31147  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 nodejs18-devel to version 18.16.1-150400.9.9.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs18-devel package and not the nodejs18-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom() are unavailable, c-ares uses rand() to generate random numbers used for DNS query ids. This is not a CSPRNG, and it is also not seeded by srand() so will generate predictable output. Input from the random number generator is fed into a non-compilant RC4 implementation and may not be as strong as the original RC4 implementation. No attempt is made to look for modern OS-provided CSPRNGs like arc4random() that is widely available. This issue has been fixed in version 1.19.1.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1