An issue was discovered in AdaCore ada_web_services 20.0 allows an attacker to escalate privileges and steal sessions via the Random_String…

published 2024-09-25 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-39153

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits: 0; none known

An issue was discovered in AdaCore ada_web_services 20.0 allows an attacker to escalate privileges and steal sessions via the Random_String() function in the src/core/aws-utils.adb module.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-41708 updated 2026-01-13 cvss 7.5

aws: aws-2020: Random Number Generator of Ada is not cryptographically secure

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-09-26)

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

adacore ada_web_services

Classification

Weakness

CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-41708
NVD CVE-2024-41708

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Summary