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CVE for nodejs node-uuid

From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:27:34 -0600

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/93

Insecure Entropy Source - Math.random()

March 28th, 2016
CVE-PENDING • Credit: Fedot Praslov
node-uuid
Vulnerable: <1.4.4
Patched: >=1.4.4
Overview

node-uuid prior to 1.4.4 contained a bug that caused it to consistently
fall back to using Math.random instead of a more cryptographically sound
source of entropy, the native crypto module.

Remediation

Upgrade to version 1.4.4 or greater

References

https://github.com/broofa/node-uuid/issues/108
https://github.com/broofa/node-uuid/issues/122


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