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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2024-42475 EUVD-2024-39635

OAuth library for nim allows insecure generation of state values by generateState - entropy too low and uses regular PRNG instead of CSPRNG

Published Aug 15, 2024 · Updated Aug 19, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

In the OAuth library for nim prior to version 0.11, the `state` values generated by the `generateState` function do not have sufficient entropy. These can be successfully guessed by an attacker allowing them to perform a CSRF vs a user, associating the user's session with the attacker's protected resources. While `state` isn't exactly a cryptographic value, it should be generated in a cryptographically secure way. `generateState` should be using a CSPRNG. Version 0.11 modifies the `generateState` function to generate `state` values of at least 128 bits of entropy while using a CSPRNG.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
CORDEA oauth < 0.11 —

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