CVE-2021-4238 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2021-4238

Insufficient randomness in github.com/Masterminds/goutils

Vulnerability Description

Randomly-generated alphanumeric strings contain significantly less entropy than expected. The RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric functions always return strings containing at least one digit from 0 to 9. This significantly reduces the amount of entropy in short strings generated by these functions.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

Affected Vendor

github.com/Masterminds/goutils

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Affected Software

github.com/Masterminds/goutils
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: December 27th, 2022
Last Modified: April 11th, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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