makepasswd 1.10 default settings generate insecure passwords

published 2019-11-06 7 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-2259

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

distros 1

makepasswd Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.10-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2247

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-2247 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 3.3

makepasswd: default settin generate insecure passwords

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

makepasswd makepasswd

Classification

Weakness

CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

References

lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JLAGK43ZTRNAMRO7JI2AW4BAZS35QSEE/
vendor-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HLHAXN3XRR7RJ73SJTBSW3GZT4GLHI33/
vendor-advisory
security-tracker.debian.org /tracker/CVE-2010-2247
third-party-advisory
access.redhat.com /security/cve/cve-2010-2247
broken-link

Sources

CVE List CVE-2010-2247
NVD CVE-2010-2247

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary