CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4102

7.5 HIGH Published 2008-09-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-09-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

Joomla! 1.5 before 1.5.7 initializes PHP's PRNG with a weak seed, which makes it easier for attackers to guess the pseudo-random values produced by PHP's mt_rand function, as demonstrated by guessing password reset tokens, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-3681.

Affected configurations

• joomla joomla 1.5 • joomla joomla 1.5.1 • joomla joomla 1.5.2 • joomla joomla 1.5.3 • joomla joomla 1.5.4 • joomla joomla 1.5.5 • joomla joomla 1.5.6

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References