6.5 Medium
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
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
42.1%
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.
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | urandom is always available on Ubuntu and is detected during build |