GHSA-VFGX-5Q85-58Q3 openssl-encrypt has non-cryptographic PRNG used for steganography pixel selection

Summary The generatepseudorandomsequence function in opensslencrypt/plugins/steganography/core/utils.py at lines 89-91 uses Python's random module Mersenne Twister for steganographic pixel/sample selection. Affected Code python random.seedseed sequence = random.samplerangemaxvalue, minlength,...

openssl-encrypt has non-cryptographic PRNG used for steganography pixel selection

Summary The generatepseudorandomsequence function in opensslencrypt/plugins/steganography/core/utils.py at lines 89-91 uses Python's random module Mersenne Twister for steganographic pixel/sample selection. Affected Code python random.seedseed sequence = random.samplerangemaxvalue, minlength,...

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