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CVE-2016-3735 Detail

Description

Piwigo is image gallery software written in PHP. When a criteria is not met on a host, piwigo defaults to usingmt_rand in order to generate password reset tokens. mt_rand output can be predicted after recovering the seed used to generate it. This low an unauthenticated attacker to take over an account providing they know an administrators email address in order to be able to request password reset.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://piwigo.org/release-2.8.1%2C
http://piwigo.org/release-2.8.1%2C
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commit/f51ee90c66527fd7ff634f3e8d414cb670da068d Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commit/f51ee90c66527fd7ff634f3e8d414cb670da068d Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/470%2C
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/470%2C

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) cwe source acceptance level NIST   Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-3735
NVD Published Date:
01/28/2022
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.