Internet Bug Bounty: Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator in WebCrypto keygen

2023-02-2807:06:10

imhunternull

hackerone.com

$4000

9.1 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

22.8%

JSON

CVE-2022-35255 Detail

Description
A weak randomness in WebCrypto keygen vulnerability exists in Node.js 18 due to a change with EntropySource() in SecretKeyGenTraits::DoKeyGen() in src/crypto/crypto_keygen.cc. There are two problems with this: 1) It does not check the return value, it assumes EntropySource() always succeeds, but it can (and sometimes will) fail. 2) The random data returned byEntropySource() may not be cryptographically strong and therefore not suitable as keying material.

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-35255
HackerOne original report: https://hackerone.com/reports/1690000