[DepShield] (CVSS 5.9) Vulnerability due to usage of golang.org/x:crypto:0.0.0-20180904163835-0709b304e793

[sonatype-depshield]

Vulnerabilities

DepShield reports that this application's usage of golang.org/x:crypto:0.0.0-20180904163835-0709b304e793 results in the following vulnerability(s):

• (CVSS 5.9) [CVE-2019-11840] Use of Insufficiently Random Values

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Occurrences

golang.org/x:crypto:0.0.0-20180904163835-0709b304e793 is a transitive dependency introduced by the following direct dependency(s):

• github.com/spf13:cobra:1.0.0
        └─ github.com/spf13:viper:1.4.0
              └─ github.com/prometheus:client_golang:0.9.3
                    └─ github.com/prometheus:common:0.4.0
                          └─ github.com/sirupsen:logrus:1.2.0
                                └─ golang.org/x:crypto:0.0.0-20180904163835-0709b304e793

• github.com/spf13:viper:1.7.1
        └─ github.com/prometheus:client_golang:0.9.3
              └─ github.com/prometheus:common:0.4.0
                    └─ github.com/sirupsen:logrus:1.2.0
                          └─ golang.org/x:crypto:0.0.0-20180904163835-0709b304e793

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[DarthHater]

@bhamail this is a false positive correct (since we replace this)?

[bhamail]

Closing as false positive. The app actually uses a different version of crypto than reported by go mod graph:

$ go list -m all | grep crypto
golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20190820162420-60c769a6c586