CVE-2021-4238 (GCVE-0-2021-4238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-27 21:13 – Updated: 2025-04-11 16:17
VLAI
Title
Insufficient randomness in github.com/Masterminds/goutils
Summary
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.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE 330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values
Assigner
Go
References
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