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GHSA-xmjp-8ccm-cf6h

GitHub Security Advisory

⚠ Unreviewed MODERATE Has CVE

Advisory Details

OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a rewritten random number generator (RNG). This was intended to include protection in the event of a fork() system call in order to ensure that the parent and child processes did not share the same RNG state. However this protection was not being used in the default case. A partial mitigation for this issue is that the output from a high precision timer is mixed into the RNG state so the likelihood of a parent and child process sharing state is significantly reduced. If an application already calls OPENSSL_init_crypto() explicitly using OPENSSL_INIT_ATFORK then this problem does not occur at all. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1d (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1c).

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-xmjp-8ccm-cf6h
Published
May 24, 2022 4:55 PM
Last Modified
April 4, 2024 1:55 AM
CVSS Score
5.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Unknown
Primary Package
Unknown
GitHub Reviewed
✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 1, 2025 6:26 AM

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