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Use of Insufficiently Random Values

CVE-2020-35926

High
9.8/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the nanorand crate before 0.5.1 for Rust. It caused any random number generator (even ChaCha) to return all zeroes because integer truncation was mishandled.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-330 - Use of Insufficiently Random Values

The software uses insufficiently random numbers or values in a security context that depends on unpredictable numbers.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published