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QtNetworkAuth — predicatable seeding of PRNG in QAbstractOAuth

Andy Shaw reports: The OAuth1 implementation in QtNetworkAuth created nonces using a PRNG that was seeded with a predictable seed. This means that an attacker that can somehow control the time of the first OAuth1 flow of the process has a high chance of predicting the nonce used in said OAuth…Read More

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