Description
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.
Published: 2022-12-27
Score: 9.1 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-7482 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-3839-6r69-m497 GoUtils's randomly-generated alphanumeric strings contain significantly less entropy than expected
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-xg2h-wx96-xgxr RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be
History

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-11T16:17:46.299Z

Reserved: 2022-07-29T19:56:49.058Z

Link: CVE-2021-4238

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:23:10.165Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-27T22:15:12.073

Modified: 2025-04-11T17:15:35.883

Link: CVE-2021-4238

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2022-12-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-4238 - Bugzilla

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