CVE-2018-16115

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Published 2018-10-22 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in akka-actor

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Maven	com.typesafe.akka:akka-actor_2.11	`>=2.5.0,<2.5.16`	`2.5.16`
Maven	com.typesafe.akka:akka-actor_2.12	`>=2.5.0,<2.5.16`	`2.5.16`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.