Bug 1422009 - nodejs-ws: Use of cryptographically insecure Math.random
Summary: nodejs-ws: Use of cryptographically insecure Math.random
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1422010 1422011 1422012
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-14 10:11 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nodejs-ws 1.1.2, nodejs-ws 2.0.0
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:07:37 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-14 10:11:05 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in the nodejs ws package. 

Affected versions of the package use the cryptographically insecure Math.random which can produce predictable values and should not be used in security-sensitive context.

References:

https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:ws:20160920
https://medium.com/@betable/tifu-by-using-math-random-f1c308c4fd9d#.t00x80pbh

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/websockets/ws/pull/832

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/7253f06f5432c76f3e82e2c055fcea08b612d8b2
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-02-14 10:12:05 UTC 
Created nodejs-ws tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1422010]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1422011]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1422012]
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