CVE-2011-2683: Reseed Project Reseed

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

reseed seeds random numbers from an insecure HTTP request to random.org during installation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected products

Published 2017-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.