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CVE-2016-3735

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: January 28, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:46 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPiwigo

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Piwigo· Piwigo
95%
v < 2.8.1
Affected range stops below 2.8.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

Source: [email protected]
http://piwigo.org/release-2.8.1%2C
PatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commit/f51ee90c66527fd7ff634f3e8d414cb670da068d
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/470%2C

CVSS

8.1HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-335

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