Critical
Security advisory
In Airsonic 10.2.1, RecoverController.java generates passwords via org.apache.commons.lang.RandomStringUtils, which uses java.util.Random internally. This PRNG has a 48-bit seed that can easily be bruteforced, leading to trivial privilege escalation attacks.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-10908
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Airsonic 10.2.1, RecoverController.java generates passwords via org.apache.commons.lang.RandomStringUtils, which uses java.util.Random internally. This PRNG has a 48-bit seed that can easily be bruteforced, leading to trivial privilege escalation attacks.
osv:CVE-2019-10908
Complete source record
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