CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-3735

8.1 HIGH Published 2022-01-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-01-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-335

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.

Affected configurations

• piwigo piwigo (< 2.8.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness

References