CVE-2008-4102
N/A
Published: September 18, 2008 at 05:47 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorJoomla!
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Joomla! 1.5 before 1.5.7 initializes PHP's PRNG with a weak seed, which makes it easier for attackers to guess the pseudo-random values produced by PHP's mt_rand function, as demonstrated by guessing password reset tokens, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-3681.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (10)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122115344915232&w=2Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122118210029084&w=2Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152798516853&w=2Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4271Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496237/100/0/threadedQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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