CVE-2021-4238 (GCVE-0-2021-4238)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-27 21:13 – Updated: 2025-04-11 16:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Insufficient randomness in github.com/Masterminds/goutils
Summary
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.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-11 16:17 UTC
CWE
- CWE 330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/Masterminds/goutils | github.com/Masterminds/goutils |
Affected:
0 , < 1.1.1
(semver)
|
guessed |
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