Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU67560

Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in go.uuid - CVE-2021-3538

Published: September 22, 2022

Vulnerability identifier: #VU67560

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3538

CWE-ID: CWE-338

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists in github.com/satori/go.uuid due to insecure randomness in the g.rand.Read() function. A remote attacker can trigger trigger the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Affected software

go.uuid
IBM Security Guardium Insights

How to mitigate CVE-2021-3538

Install updates from vendor's website.

go.uuid - update to 1.2.0
IBM Security Guardium Insights - update to 3.0.1

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