Vulnerability Report: GO-2022-0411
- CVE-2021-4238, GHSA-3839-6r69-m497, and 1 more
- Affects: github.com/Masterminds/goutils
- Published: Jul 01, 2022
- Modified: Jun 12, 2023
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.
Affected Packages
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PathVersionsSymbols
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before v1.1.1
Aliases
References
- https://github.com/Masterminds/goutils/commit/869801f20f9f1e7ecdbdb6422049d8241270d5e1
- https://vuln.go.dev/ID/GO-2022-0411.json
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