Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-1902 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
debian
sensiolabs
CWE-310
nessus

Summary

The nextBytes function in the SecureRandom class in Symfony before 2.3.37, 2.6.x before 2.6.13, and 2.7.x before 2.7.9 does not properly generate random numbers when used with PHP 5.x without the paragonie/random_compat library and the openssl_random_pseudo_bytes function fails, which makes it easier for attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Debian
1
Application
Sensiolabs
144

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation
    An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3588.NASL
descriptionTwo vulnerabilities were discovered in Symfony, a PHP framework. - CVE-2016-1902 Lander Brandt discovered that the class SecureRandom might generate weak random numbers for cryptographic use under certain settings. If the functions random_bytes() or openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() are not available, the output of SecureRandom should not be consider secure. - CVE-2016-4423 Marek Alaksa from Citadelo discovered that it is possible to fill up the session storage space by submitting inexistent large usernames.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id91365
published2016-05-31
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91365
titleDebian DSA-3588-1 : symfony - security update