Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-3735 - Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) vulnerability in Piwigo

047910
CVSS 8.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
high complexity
piwigo
CWE-335

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Piwigo
193