CVE-2013-4442

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Password Generator (aka Pwgen) before 2.07 uses weak pseudo generated numbers when /dev/urandom is unavailable, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess the numbers.

Affected products

Pwgen: through 2.06

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146285.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/pwgen/code/ci/00118ccac4656adb028504639b313d7b09e62b79/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:008
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/06/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/15
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672241
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html

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