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Duplicate Advisory: GoUtils's randomly-generated alphanumeric strings contain significantly less entropy than expected

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 28, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 23, 2026
Withdrawn This advisory was withdrawn on Jan 23, 2026

Package

gomod github.com/Masterminds/goutils (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.1.1

Patched versions

1.1.1

Description

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-xg2h-wx96-xgxr. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original 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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 28, 2022
Reviewed Dec 30, 2022
Withdrawn Jan 23, 2026
Last updated Jan 23, 2026

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Insufficient Entropy

The product uses an algorithm or scheme that produces insufficient entropy, leaving patterns or clusters of values that are more likely to occur than others. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-3839-6r69-m497

Source code

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