GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist

GHSA-2fhr-8r8r-qp56 ZendFramework Information Disclosure and Insufficient Entropy vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2024-06-07 Modified 2024-06-07 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
Packagist
Packages
zendframework/zendframework
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200, CWE-331
Reviewed
2024-06-07

Affected packages

• Packagist zendframework/zendframework: >= 2.0.0, < 2.4.9 → fixed in 2.4.9

Description

In Zend Framework, `Zend_Captcha_Word` (v1) and `Zend\Captcha\Word` (v2) generate a "word" for a CAPTCHA challenge by selecting a sequence of random letters from a character set. Prior to this advisory, the selection was performed using PHP's `internal array_rand()` function. This function does not generate sufficient entropy due to its usage of `rand()` instead of more cryptographically secure methods such as `openssl_pseudo_random_bytes()`. This could potentially lead to information disclosure should an attacker be able to brute force the random number generation.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
  • CWE-331 Insufficient Entropy weakness

References