CVE-2016-3735

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.

CVSS v3.0 8.1 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

8.1^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.2 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/470,	Broken Link
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commit/f51ee90c66527fd7ff634f3e8d414cb670da068d	Patch Third Party Advisory
http://piwigo.org/release-2.8.1,	Broken Link

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:piwigo:piwigo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2022-01-28 12:15

Updated : 2022-11-07 10:53

NVD link : CVE-2016-3735

Mitre link : CVE-2016-3735

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-335

Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

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Products Affected

piwigo

piwigo

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