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CVE-2016-3735 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.1 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://piwigo.org/release-2.8.1%2C CVE
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commit/f51ee90c66527fd7ff634f3e8d414cb670da068d CVEPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/470%2C CVE
http://piwigo.org/release-2.8.1%2C [email protected]
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commit/f51ee90c66527fd7ff634f3e8d414cb670da068d [email protected]PatchThird Party Advisory

see all 6 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-335Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)[email protected]
CWE-335Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
piwigo piwigo
< 2.8.1

CPE

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

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-3735
NVD Published Date:
Jan 28, 2022
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-3735 Details - Not Deferred