CVE-2022-35255

NameCVE-2022-35255
DescriptionA weak randomness in WebCrypto keygen vulnerability exists in Node.js 18 due to a change with EntropySource() in SecretKeyGenTraits::DoKeyGen() in src/crypto/crypto_keygen.cc. There are two problems with this: 1) It does not check the return value, it assumes EntropySource() always succeeds, but it can (and sometimes will) fail. 2) The random data returned byEntropySource() may not be cryptographically strong and therefore not suitable as keying material.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-5326-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
nodejs (PTS)jessie0.10.29~dfsg-2vulnerable
stretch4.8.2~dfsg-1vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u4fixed
bullseye12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u4fixed
bullseye (security)12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u5fixed
bookworm18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u2fixed
bookworm (security)18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie20.17.0+dfsg-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
nodejssourcejessie(unfixed)end-of-life
nodejssourcestretch(unfixed)end-of-life
nodejssourcebuster(not affected)
nodejssourcebullseye12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u3DSA-5326-1
nodejssource(unstable)18.10.0+dfsg-1

Notes

[buster] - nodejs <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2022-security-releases/#weak-randomness-in-webcrypto-keygen-high-cve-2022-35255
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0c2a5723beff39d1f62daec96b5389da3d427e79 (v18.9.1)
Introduced by https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dae283d96fd31ad0f30840a7e55ac97294f505ac (v15.0.0)

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