CVE-2013-1445 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-1445

The Crypto.Random.atfork function in PyCrypto before 2.6.1 does not properly...

Vulnerability Description

The Crypto.Random.atfork function in PyCrypto before 2.6.1 does not properly reseed the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) before allowing a child process to access it, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a race condition in which a child process is created and accesses the PRNG within the same rate-limit period as another process.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

pycrypto
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.1, 2.5

Timeline

Official Publish: October 26th, 2013
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.