Predictable Seed in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in aws - CVE-2024-41708
Published: September 27, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU97753
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-41708
CWE-ID: CWE-337
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: AdaCore
Affected software:
aws
aws
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected application.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of a weak random number generator within the Random_String() function in the src/core/aws-utils.adb module. A remote attacker can guess session identifiers of other users and gain unauthorized access to the application.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-41708
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.