CVE-2018-1000620 High Severity Vulnerability detected by WhiteSource

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CVE-2018-1000620 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - cryptiles-2.0.5.tgz

General purpose crypto utilities

path: /tmp/git/Hardware-con-Nodejs/node_modules/serialport/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/node_modules/request/node_modules/hawk/node_modules/cryptiles/package.json

Library home page: http://registry.npmjs.org/cryptiles/-/cryptiles-2.0.5.tgz

Dependency Hierarchy:

• serialport-4.0.7.tgz (Root Library)
  • node-pre-gyp-0.6.32.tgz
    • request-2.79.0.tgz
      • hawk-3.1.3.tgz
        • ❌ cryptiles-2.0.5.tgz (Vulnerable Library)

Vulnerability Details

Eran Hammer cryptiles version 4.1.1 earlier contains a CWE-331: Insufficient Entropy vulnerability in randomDigits() method that can result in An attacker is more likely to be able to brute force something that was supposed to be random.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Depends upon the calling application.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 4.1.2.

Publish Date: 2018-07-09

URL: CVE-2018-1000620

CVSS 3 Score Details (9.8)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: High
  • Integrity Impact: High
  • Availability Impact: High

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

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