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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS0zODM5LTZyNjktbTQ5N84AAwoN

GoUtils's randomly-generated alphanumeric strings contain significantly less entropy than expected

Randomly-generated alphanumeric strings contain significantly less entropy than expected. The RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric functions always return strings containing at least one digit from 0 to 9. This significantly reduces the amount of entropy in short strings generated by these functions.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3839-6r69-m497
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: about 2 years ago
Updated: 8 months ago

CVSS Score: 9.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS Percentage: 0.00209
EPSS Percentile: 0.58528

Identifiers: GHSA-3839-6r69-m497, CVE-2021-4238
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4238
• https://github.com/Masterminds/goutils/commit/869801f20f9f1e7ecdbdb6422049d8241270d5e1
• https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0411
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3839-6r69-m497

Repository: https://github.com/Masterminds/goutils
Blast Radius: 39.0

Affected Packages