Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36732

Medium

Published: 12 June 2023

Published
12 June 2023
Modified
06 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0088 75.7th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36732 is a medium-severity Use of Insufficiently Random Values (CWE-330) vulnerability in Crypto-Js Project Crypto-Js. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The crypto-js package before 3.2.1 for Node.js generates random numbers by concatenating the string "0." with an integer, which makes the output more predictable than necessary.

CWE(s)
CWE-330CWE-331

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

crypto-js project
crypto-js
≤ 3.2.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-12 Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management
addresses: CWE-330 CWE-331

Key generation under controlled management uses approved random-bit sources rather than insufficiently random values.

References