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.
References
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https://github.com/Masterminds/goutils/commit/869801f20f9f1e7ecdbdb6422049d8241270d5e1 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0411 | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Go
Published: 2022-12-27T21:13:50.373Z
Updated: 2023-06-12T19:04:16.468Z
Reserved: 2022-07-29T19:56:49.058Z
Link: CVE-2021-4238
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2022-12-27T22:15:12.073
Modified: 2023-01-05T04:43:06.587
Link: CVE-2021-4238
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CWE