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CVE-2023-31124 Details

Description

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARES_RANDOM_FILE will not be set, as seen when cross compiling aarch64 android. This will downgrade to using rand() as a fallback which could allow an attacker to take advantage of the lack of entropy by not using a CSPRNG. This issue was patched in version 1.19.1.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:3.7 LOWVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:3.7 LOWVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-54xr-f67r-4pc4	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/B5Z5XFNXTNPTCBBVXFDNZQVLLIE6VRBY/	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UBFWILTA33LOSV23P44FGTQQIDRJHIY7/	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-09	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-54xr-f67r-4pc4	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/B5Z5XFNXTNPTCBBVXFDNZQVLLIE6VRBY/	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UBFWILTA33LOSV23P44FGTQQIDRJHIY7/	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-09	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory

see all 10 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-330	Use of Insufficiently Random Values	[email protected]
CWE-330	Use of Insufficiently Random Values	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
c-ares project c-ares	< 1.19.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:c-ares_project:c-ares:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
fedoraproject fedora	37 38
CPE cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

11 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Feb 13, 2025	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 31, 2023	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Oct 8, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 20, 2023	Reanalysis	[email protected]
Jun 2, 2023	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
May 28, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 26, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]