Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-35926

critical

CVE-2020-35926

Improper random number generation in nanorand

Published Modified CWE 330, 681
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA5.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by GHSA (medium).

Description

An issue was discovered in the nanorand crate before 0.5.1 for Rust. It caused any random number generator (even ChaCha) to return all zeroes because integer truncation was mishandled.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
cargo::GitHub Security Advisory Rustnanorand0.5.1

References

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