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CVE-2019-3795: Insufficient Entropy in PRNG

April 9, 2019 (updated May 20, 2019)

Spring Security contain an insecure randomness vulnerability when using SecureRandomFactoryBean#setSeed to configure a SecureRandom instance. In order to be impacted, an honest application must provide a seed and make the resulting random material available to an attacker for inspection.

References

  • www.securityfocus.com/bid/107802
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3795
  • pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-3795

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 4.2.0.RELEASE before 4.2.12.RELEASE, all versions starting from 5.0.0.RELEASE before 5.0.12.RELEASE, all versions starting from 5.1.0.RELEASE before 5.1.5.RELEASE

Fixed versions

  • 4.2.13.RELEASE
  • 5.0.13.RELEASE
  • 5.1.6.RELEASE

Solution

Upgrade to versions 4.2.13.RELEASE, 5.0.13.RELEASE, 5.1.6.RELEASE or above.

Impact 5 MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-332: Insufficient Entropy in PRNG

Source file

maven/org.springframework.security/spring-security-core/CVE-2019-3795.yml

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