Insecure Randomness Affecting cryptiles package, versions >=3.1.0 <3.1.3>=4.0.0 <4.1.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.68% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:cryptiles:20180710
  • published19 Jul 2018
  • disclosed9 Jul 2018
  • creditMicrosoft Vulnerability Research

Introduced: 9 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-1000620  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-331  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade to versions 3.1.3, 4.1.2 and higher.

Overview

cryptiles is a package for general crypto utilities.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness. The randomDigits() method is supposed to return a cryptographically strong pseudo-random data string, but it was biased to certain digits. An attacker could be able to guess the created digits.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1