CVE-2019-16303
Critical severity vulnerability that affects generator-jhipster
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.9%
Description
Account takeover and privilege escalation is possible in applications generated by generator-jhipster before 6.3.0. This is due to a vulnerability in the generated java classes: CWE-338: Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) Generated applications must be manually patched, following instructions in the release notes: https://www.jhipster.tech/2019/09/13/jhipster-release-6.3.0.html
How to fix CVE-2019-16303
To remediate CVE-2019-16303, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 6.3.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.2.0 or later
Is CVE-2019-16303 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 6.3.0
- from 0, < 1.2.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |