CRITICAL: crypto-js — crypto-js: Insufficient Entropy in Cryptographic Secret Generation via Vulnerable CryptoJS Dependency Chain
Summary CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() in affected versions is not a cryptographically secure random number generator. Nominal requests for 128 or 256 bits of entropy produce effective search spaces of approximately 2^39 and 2^47 possibilities — small…
Source crypto-jsPublished 8d ago · Aug 7, 2026Posted on Threads
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- Package
- crypto-js
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- ID
- CVE-2026-71851
Summary CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() in affected versions is not a cryptographically secure random number generator. Nominal requests for 128 or 256 bits of entropy produce effective search spaces of approximately 2^39 and 2^47 possibilities — small…
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