CVE-2025-46653 (GCVE-0-2025-46653)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-26 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-29 15:22
VLAI
Summary
Formidable (aka node-formidable) 2.1.0 through 3.x before 3.5.3 relies on hexoid to prevent guessing of filenames for untrusted executable content; however, hexoid is documented as not "cryptographically secure." (Also, there is a scenario in which only the last two characters of a hexoid string need to be guessed, but this is not often relevant.) NOTE: this does not imply that, in a typical use case, attackers will be able to exploit any hexoid behavior to upload and execute their own content.
Severity
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-29 14:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-338 - Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 27/100 over 2320 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
node-formidable Formidable Affected: 2.1.0 , < 3.5.3 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:node-formidable:formidable:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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