CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2023-31147
Medium (6.5). EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom() are unavailable, c-ares uses rand() to generate random numbers used for DNS query ids. This is not a CSPRNG, and it is also not seeded by srand() so will generate predictable output. Input from the random number generator is fed into a non-compilant RC4 implementation and may not be as strong as the original RC4 implementation. No attempt is made to look for modern OS-provided CSPRNGs like arc4random() that is widely available. This issue has been fixed in version 1.19.1.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-330
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- c-ares_project:c-ares
- fedoraproject:fedora
References
- https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1
- https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5Z5XFNXTNPTCBBVXFDNZQVLLIE6VRBY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBFWILTA33LOSV23P44FGTQQIDRJHIY7/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-09