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Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

CVE-2017-16028

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

react-native-meteor-oauth is a library for Oauth2 login to a Meteor server in React Native. In versions before 3.0.0 the oauth Random Token is generated using a non-cryptographically strong RNG (Math.random()).

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CWE-338 - Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

The product uses a Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in a security context, but the PRNG's algorithm is not cryptographically strong.

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