Vulnerability in Punbb

CVE-2008-1484

The password reset feature in PunBB 1.2.16 and earlier uses predictable random numbers based on the system time, which allows remote authenticated users to determine the new password via a brute force attack on a seed that is based on the approximate creation time of the targeted account. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2006-5737.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.045 (91.2th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-1484: held from 0.045 to 0.045.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.045 · newest: 0.045 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Punbb — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0_alpha

Weakness classification (CWE)

References