GHSA-c9q6-g3hr-8gww

Jervis Has Weak Random for Timing Attack Mitigation

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2025-68704

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	net.gleske:jervis	< 2.2	2.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Vulnerability https://github.com/samrocketman/jervis/blob/157d2b63ffa5c4bb1d8ee2254950fd2231de2b05/src/main/groovy/net/gleske/jervis/tools/SecurityIO.groovy#L593-L594 Uses `java.util.Random()` which is not cryptographically secure. ### Impact If an attacker can predict the random delays, they may still be able to perform timing attacks. ### Patches Jervis will use `SecureRandom` for timing randomization. Upgrade to Jervis 2.2. ### Workarounds None ### References - [OWASP Cryptographic Failures](https://owasp.org/Top10/A02_2021-Cryptographic_Failures/)

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/samrocketman/jervis/security/advisories/GHSA-c9q6-g3hr-8gww web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68704 advisory
https://github.com/samrocketman/jervis/commit/c3981ff71de7b0f767dfe7b37a2372cb2a51974a web
https://github.com/samrocketman/jervis package
https://github.com/samrocketman/jervis/blob/157d2b63ffa5c4bb1d8ee2254950fd2231de2b05/src/main/groovy/net/gleske/jervis/tools/SecurityIO.groo… web
http://github.com/samrocketman/jervis/commit/c3981ff71de7b0f767dfe7b37a2372cb2a51974a web