{"id":"GHSA-mwp6-j9wf-968c","summary":"Critical severity vulnerability that affects generator-jhipster","details":"Account takeover and privilege escalation is possible in applications generated by generator-jhipster before 6.3.0. This is due to a vulnerability in the generated java classes: CWE-338: Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)\n\nGenerated applications must be manually patched, following instructions in the release notes: https://www.jhipster.tech/2019/09/13/jhipster-release-6.3.0.html\n","aliases":["CVE-2019-16303","GHSA-j3rh-8vwq-wh84"],"modified":"2026-09-10T03:48:45.080518332Z","published":"2019-09-13T21:33:25Z","withdrawn":"2020-06-26T16:40:47Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2020-06-16T21:47:33Z","nvd_published_at":null,"cwe_ids":["CWE-338"],"severity":"CRITICAL"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/security/advisories/GHSA-mwp6-j9wf-968c"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3rh-8vwq-wh84"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mwp6-j9wf-968c"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"generator-jhipster","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/generator-jhipster"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.3.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2019/09/GHSA-mwp6-j9wf-968c/GHSA-mwp6-j9wf-968c.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}