GHSA-3839-6r69-m497

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    GHSA-3839-6r69-m497

    Published: 28 Dec 2022Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Duplicate Advisory: GoUtils's randomly-generated alphanumeric strings contain significantly less entropy than expected

    Details: ## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-xg2h-wx96-xgxr. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description 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: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4238, https://github.com/Masterminds/goutils/commit/869801f20f9f1e7ecdbdb6422049d8241270d5e1, https://github.com/Masterminds/goutils, https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0411

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/Masterminds/goutils

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/Masterminds/goutils

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.1.1

    Affected versions

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    GHSA-3839-6r69-m497 | CVE-DB