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Formidable relies on hexoid to prevent guessing of filenames for untrusted executable content

Open orenBerko opened this issue 8 months ago • 0 comments

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Description

i got this on Dependabot alert: Package Affected versions Patched version formidable (npm)

= 2.1.0, < 2.1.3 None

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.

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Lock version

13.0.0

Which browsers have you tested in?

Chrome

orenBerko avatar May 04 '25 13:05 orenBerko