CVE-2023-31147

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-330: CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2
• https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1
• 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

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2
• https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1
• 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

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