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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published: 2022-12-27T21:13:50.373Z

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

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

Link: CVE-2021-4238

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2023-01-05T04:43:06.587

Link: CVE-2021-4238

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2021-4238 - Bugzilla