CVE-2019-16303
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 3.7% (pctl 89)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
A class generated by the Generator in JHipster before 6.3.0 and JHipster Kotlin through 1.1.0 produces code that uses an insecure source of randomness (apache.commons.lang3 RandomStringUtils). This allows an attacker (if able to obtain their own password reset URL) to compute the value for all other password resets for other accounts, thus allowing privilege escalation or account takeover.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.67% — more likely to be exploited than 89% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-338 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2019-09-14 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| jhipster | jhipster |
| jhipster | jhipster kotlin |
References
- https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/commit/88448b85fd3e8e49df103f0061359037c2c68ea7
- https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/issues/10401
- https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/security/advisories/GHSA-mwp6-j9wf-968c
- https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/issues/183
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6d243e7e3f25daeb242dacf3def411fba32a9388d3ff84918cb28ddd%40%3Cissues.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc3f00f5d3d2ec0e2381a3b9096d5f5b4d46ec1587ee7e251a3dbb897%40%3Cissues.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc87fa35a48b5d70b06af6fb81785ed82e82686eb83307aae6d250dc9%40%3Cissues.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://www.jhipster.tech/2019/09/13/jhipster-release-6.3.0.html
- https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/commit/88448b85fd3e8e49df103f0061359037c2c68ea7
- https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/issues/10401
- https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/security/advisories/GHSA-mwp6-j9wf-968c
- https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-kotlin/issues/183
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6d243e7e3f25daeb242dacf3def411fba32a9388d3ff84918cb28ddd%40%3Cissues.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc3f00f5d3d2ec0e2381a3b9096d5f5b4d46ec1587ee7e251a3dbb897%40%3Cissues.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc87fa35a48b5d70b06af6fb81785ed82e82686eb83307aae6d250dc9%40%3Cissues.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://www.jhipster.tech/2019/09/13/jhipster-release-6.3.0.html
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