CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2564

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-04-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-331

Description

Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite before 4.1.9 makes session hijack easier by relying on the PHP uniqid function without the more_entropy flag. Attackers can guess an Invision Power Board session cookie if they can predict the exact time of cookie generation.

Affected configurations

• invisioncommunity invision power board (<= 4.1.8.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-331 Insufficient Entropy weakness

References