GHSA-mr95-9rr4-668f

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mr95-9rr4-668f

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/10/GHSA-mr95-9rr4-668f/GHSA-mr95-9rr4-668f.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-mr95-9rr4-668f

Aliases

CVE-2018-16115

Published

2018-10-22T20:44:26Z

Modified

2023-11-08T03:59:58.659739Z

Severity

9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in akka-actor

Details

Lightbend Akka 2.5.x before 2.5.16 allows message disclosure and modification because of an RNG error. A random number generator is used in Akka Remoting for TLS (both classic and Artery Remoting). Akka allows configuration of custom random number generators. For historical reasons, Akka included the AES128CounterSecureRNG and AES256CounterSecureRNG random number generators. The implementations had a bug that caused the generated numbers to be repeated after only a few bytes. The custom RNG implementations were not configured by default but examples in the documentation showed (and therefore implicitly recommended) using the custom ones. This can be used by an attacker to compromise the communication if these random number generators are enabled in configuration. It would be possible to eavesdrop, replay, or modify the messages sent with Akka Remoting/Cluster.

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:47:05Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-338"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / com.typesafe.akka:akka-actor_2.11

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-actor_2.11; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-actor_2.11

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

2.5.0

Fixed

2.5.16

Affected versions

2.*

2.5.0

2.5.1

2.5.2

2.5.3

2.5.4

2.5.5

2.5.6

2.5.7

2.5.8

2.5.9

2.5.10

2.5.11

2.5.12

2.5.13

2.5.14

2.5.15

Maven / com.typesafe.akka:akka-actor_2.12