Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 22, 2026· Updated Sep 1, 2026
CVE-2026-16615
CVE-2026-16615
Description
A flaw was found in librest. The PKCE implementation for OAuth authorization uses the GRand function from the GLib API, a cryptographically insecure pseudo-random number generator. Because the generated "code verifier" lacks sufficient cryptographic entropy, a malicious actor can reverse-engineer the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) seed to predict or reconstruct the code verifier string, allowing an attacker to bypass PKCE protections and successfully impersonate the client during the OAuth 2.0 authorization flow.
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Affected products
6- osv-coords5 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/restpkg:rpm/almalinux/rest-develpkg:rpm/opensuse/librest&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/librest&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/librest0_7&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0
< 0.9.1-11.el10_2.1+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.9.1-11.el10_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.9.1-11.el10_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.9.1-160000.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.10.2-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.8.1-bp160.2.1
Patches
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