CVE-2015-8851

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.34%

Insecure Entropy Source - Math.random() in node-uuid

Published: 4/16/2020Modified: 11/8/2023

Also known as:GHSA-265q-28rp-chq5DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8851

Description

Affected versions of `node-uuid` consistently fall back to using `Math.random` as an entropy source instead of `crypto`, which may result in guessable UUID's. ## Recommendation Update to version 1.4.4 or later.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/node-uuidfrom 0, < 1.4.7-1
npm/node-uuidfrom 0, < 1.4.4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References (8)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8851
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8851
WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1327056
WEBhttps://github.com/broofa/node-uuid/commit/672f3834ed02c798aa021c618d0a5666c8da000d
WEBhttps://github.com/broofa/node-uuid/issues/108
WEBhttps://github.com/broofa/node-uuid/issues/122
WEBhttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/93
WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/13/8