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    <id>https://db.gcve.eu/vuln/rustsec-2024-0343</id>
    <title>RUSTSEC-2024-0343 — Reduced entropy due to inadequate character set usage</title>
    <updated>2026-10-17T17:53:20.158590+00:00</updated>
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      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><strong>Affected:</strong> crates.io: nano-id</p>
<p>## Description</p>
<p>Affected versions of the nano-id crate incorrectly generated IDs using a reduced character set in the `nano_id::base62` and `nano_id::base58` functions. Specifically, the `base62` function used a character set of 32 symbols instead of the intended 62 symbols, and the `base58` function used a character set of 16 symbols instead of the intended 58 symbols. Additionally, the `nano_id::gen` macro is also affected when a custom character set that is not a power of 2 in size is specified.</p>
<p>It should be noted that `nano_id::base64` is not affected by this vulnerability.</p>
<p>## Impact</p>
<p>This can result in a significant reduction in entropy, making the generated IDs predictable and vulnerable to brute-force attacks when the IDs are used in security-sensitive contexts such as session tokens or unique identifiers.</p>
<p>## Patches</p>
<p>The flaws were corrected in commit [a9022772b2f1ce38929b5b81eccc670ac9d3ab23](https://github.com/viz-rs/nano-id/commit/a9022772b2f1ce38929b5b81eccc670ac9d3ab23) by updating the the `nano_id::gen` macro to use all specified characters correctly.</p>
<p>## PoC</p>
<p>```rust
use std::collections::BTreeSet;</p>
<p>fn main() {
    test_base58();
    test_base62();
}</p>
<p>fn test_base58() {
    let mut produced_symbols = BTreeSet::new();</p>
<p>for _ in 0..100_000 {
id = "RUSTSEC-2024-0343"
        for c in id.chars() {
            produced_symbols.insert(c);
        }
    }</p>
<p>println!(
        "{} symbols generated from nano_id::base58",
        produced_symbols.len()
    );…</p></div>
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