CVE-2021-23128

Severity

90%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

86%

An issue was discovered in Joomla! 3.2.0 through 3.9.24. The core shipped but unused randval implementation within FOF (FOFEncryptRandval) used an potential insecure implemetation. That has now been replaced with a call to 'random_bytes()' and its backport that is shipped within random_compat.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

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

First reported 4 years ago

2021-03-04 18:15:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2021-03-05 20:56:00

Affected Software

Joomla!

References

https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/842-20210302-core-potential-insecure-fofencryptrandval.html

https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/842-20210302-core-potential-insecure-fofencryptrandval.html

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