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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
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3839-6r69-m497
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xg2h-wx96-xgxr
  • https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0411
  • https://github.com/Masterminds/goutils/commit/869801f20f9f1e7ecdbdb6422049d8241270d5e1

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