CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
46.1%
c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom() are unavailable, c-ares uses rand() to generate random numbers used for DNS query ids. This is not a CSPRNG, and it is also not seeded by srand() so will generate predictable output. Input from the random number generator is fed into a non-compilant RC4 implementation and may not be as strong as the original RC4 implementation. No attempt is made to look for modern OS-provided CSPRNGs like arc4random() that is widely available. This issue has been fixed in version 1.19.1.
github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1
github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/B5Z5XFNXTNPTCBBVXFDNZQVLLIE6VRBY/
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UBFWILTA33LOSV23P44FGTQQIDRJHIY7/
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-31147
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-09