π‘οΈ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix Insecure Randomization#170
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π¨ Severity: HIGH
π‘ Vulnerability: The codebase used the non-cryptographic
randommodule (Mersenne Twister) to generate security-sensitive values, including the root SSH password fallback, agent session IDs, and general application GUIDs. This predictable pseudo-random number generator could allow an attacker to predict generated secrets or identifiers if they can observe enough output to derive the seed state.π― Impact: Attackers could potentially predict future SSH root passwords, hijack agent sessions by guessing IDs, or spoof internal GUIDs.
π§ Fix: Replaced all vulnerable usages of
random.choiceswith the cryptographically securesecrets.choicegenerator.β Verification: Ran python compiler checks and the test suite to ensure existing behavior and character distributions remained functionally identical but securely sourced.
PR created automatically by Jules for task 16251309627248897490 started by @thirdeyenation