Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-2564 - Insufficient Entropy vulnerability in Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board

CVSS 5.9 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

HIGH

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

NONE

network

high complexity

invisioncommunity

CWE-331

NVD

Published: 2017-04-23

Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite before 4.1.9 makes session hijack easier by relying on the PHP uniqid function without the more_entropy flag. Attackers can guess an Invision Power Board session cookie if they can predict the exact time of cookie generation.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Invisioncommunity Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 2.0 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.0.0 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.0.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.0.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.0.4 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.1.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.3.0 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.3.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.3.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.3.3 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.3.4 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.4.0 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.4.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.4.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.4.3 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.4.4 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.4.5 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.4.6 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.4.7 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 3.4.8 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.0 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.3 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.4 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.5.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.6.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.7 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.8 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.8.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.9.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.10.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.11 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.12.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.0.13.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.0 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.3.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.3.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.4.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.5 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.5.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.5.2 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.6 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.6.1 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.7 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.8 Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board 4.1.8.1	63

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-331 - Insufficient Entropy

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

References