GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-ggfx-h9xj-5v9c Insecure PRNG use in random_password_generator
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2019-25061
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- random_password_generator
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-330, CWE-335
- Reviewed
- 2022-05-25
Affected packages
• RubyGems random_password_generator: <= 1.0.0 (no fix yet)
Description
The random_password_generator (aka RandomPasswordGenerator) gem through 1.0.0 for Ruby uses Kernel#rand to generate passwords, which, due to its cyclic nature, can facilitate password prediction.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2019-25061 The random_password_generator (aka RandomPasswordGenerator) gem through 1.0.0 for Ruby uses Kernel#rand to generate passwords, which, due… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25061 advisory
- https://github.com/bvsatyaram/random_password_generator/pull/1 web
- https://github.com/bvsatyaram/random_password_generator package
- https://github.com/bvsatyaram/random_password_generator/blob/2855e8d7d8803dbb580ddd6cf13846394eb4530e/lib/random_password_generator.rb#L23 web
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/random_password_generator/CVE-2019-25061.yml web
- https://ruby-doc.org/core-3.1.2/Random.html web
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42170239/security-of-rand-in-ruby-compared-to-other-methods/42170560 web