CVE-2010-1128

Severity

64%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

81%

The Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) in PHP before 5.2.13 does not provide the expected entropy, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess values that were intended to be unpredictable, as demonstrated by session cookies generated by using the uniqid function.

The Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) in PHP before 5.2.13 does not provide the expected entropy, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess values that were intended to be unpredictable, as demonstrated by session cookies generated by using the uniqid function.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

PHP

First reported 14 years ago

2010-03-26 20:30:00

Last updated 14 years ago

2010-12-10 06:39:00

Affected Software

PHP 5.2.0

5.2.0

PHP 5.2.1

5.2.1

PHP 5.2.2

5.2.2

PHP 5.2.3

5.2.3

PHP 5.2.4

5.2.4

PHP 5.2.5

5.2.5

PHP 5.2.6

5.2.6

PHP 5.2.7

5.2.7

PHP 5.2.8

5.2.8

PHP 5.2.9

5.2.9

PHP 5.2.10

5.2.10

PHP 5.2.11

5.2.11

PHP PHP

References

38708

Vendor Advisory

42410

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_13.php

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2010:0919

38430

Exploit

ADV-2010-0479

Patch, Vendor Advisory

ADV-2010-3081

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