CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1484
3.5 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The password reset feature in PunBB 1.2.16 and earlier uses predictable random numbers based on the system time, which allows remote authenticated users to determine the new password via a brute force attack on a seed that is based on the approximate creation time of the targeted account. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2006-5737.
Affected configurations
• punbb punbb 1.0
• punbb punbb 1.0.1
• punbb punbb 1.0 alpha
• punbb punbb 1.0 beta1
• punbb punbb 1.0 beta2
• punbb punbb 1.0 beta3
• punbb punbb 1.0 rc1
• punbb punbb 1.0 rc2
• punbb punbb 1.1
• punbb punbb 1.1.1
• punbb punbb 1.1.2
• punbb punbb 1.1.3
• punbb punbb 1.1.4
• punbb punbb 1.1.5
• punbb punbb 1.2
• punbb punbb 1.2.1
• punbb punbb 1.2.2
• punbb punbb 1.2.3
• punbb punbb 1.2.4
• punbb punbb 1.2.5
• punbb punbb 1.2.6
• punbb punbb 1.2.7
• punbb punbb 1.2.8
• punbb punbb 1.2.9
• punbb punbb 1.2.10
• punbb punbb 1.2.11
• punbb punbb 1.2.12
• punbb punbb 1.2.13
• punbb punbb 1.2.14
• punbb punbb 1.2.15
• punbb punbb 1.2.16
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/45561 osvdb.org
- http://punbb.org/download/changelogs/1.2.16_to_1.2.17.txt punbb.org
- http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18460 punbb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29043 Vendor Advisory
- http://sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-01.txt sektioneins.de
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488408/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27908 Patch
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5165 www.exploit-db.com
- http://osvdb.org/45561 osvdb.org
- http://punbb.org/download/changelogs/1.2.16_to_1.2.17.txt punbb.org
- http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18460 punbb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29043 Vendor Advisory
- http://sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-01.txt sektioneins.de
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488408/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27908 Patch
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5165 www.exploit-db.com