Predictable Seed in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in aws - CVE-2024-41708

 

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: 8.8 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-41708
CWE-ID: CWE-337
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

aws
Fedora
aws

How to mitigate CVE-2024-41708

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

aws - addressed in versions 24.0.0-3.fc41, 24.0.0-3.fc42, 2020-12.1.fc39, 2020-16.1.fc40

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