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CVE-2021-4238

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4238

Severity

9.1

Critical

CVSS V3

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Description

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.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4238

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