CVE-2026-73567: sm-crypto: Predictable SM2 key generation in Node.js: default RNG uses Math.random + wall clock

Published Aug 13, 2026
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Updated

sm-crypto provides JavaScript implementations of the Chinese cryptographic algorithms SM2, SM3, and SM4. Prior to 0.5.0, the default no-argument sm2.generateKeyPairHex() path in Node.js uses the module-wide SecureRandom instance in src/sm2/utils.js, supplied by jsbn@1.1.0, which seeds an ARC4 stream from Math.random() and new Date().getTime() because window.crypto.getRandomValues is unavailable even though globalThis.crypto exists. An attacker who can observe the process's Math.random() outputs and estimate the key-generation time can reconstruct the seed, recover generated SM2 private keys, and predict signing ephemeral scalars used to forge signatures. This issue is fixed in version 0.5.0.

Affected Software

1 affected component
npm/sm-crypto<0.5.0

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade sm-crypto to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0.5.0

Event History

Aug 13, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:40 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:40 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness
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