GHSA-g3wc-xv93-445q

DNS NuGet package uses insufficiently random values

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2021-4248

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
NuGet	DNS	< 7.0.0	7.0.0

Details

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

A vulnerability was found in kapetan dns up to 6.1.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file DNS/Protocol/Request.cs. The manipulation leads to insufficient entropy in prng. The attack may be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 7.0.0 can address this issue. The name of the patch is cf7105aa2aae90d6656088fe5a8ee1d5730773b6. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216188.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4248 advisory
https://github.com/kapetan/dns/pull/88 web
https://github.com/kapetan/dns/commit/cf7105aa2aae90d6656088fe5a8ee1d5730773b6 web
https://github.com/kapetan/dns package
https://github.com/kapetan/dns/releases/tag/v7.0.0 web
https://vuldb.com/?id.216188 web