Cryptographically Weak PRNG in generate-password

published 2019-05-23 7y ago modified 2020-08-31 6y ago

cvss: —; not scored
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: —; no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits: 0; none known

Affected versions of generate-password generate random values that are biased towards certain characters depending on the chosen character sets. This may result in guessable passwords.

## Recommendation

Update to version 1.4.1 or later.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

npm generate-password 1.4.1

github.com/brendanashworth/generate-password#26 pull request

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Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
npm	generate-password	<1.4.1	1.4.1

Classification

Weakness

CWE-338 Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

References

Sources

GitHub Advisory GHSA-6qqf-vvcr-7qrv

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