Vulnerability in Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board
CVE-2016-2564
Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite before 4.1.9 makes session hijack easier by relying on the PHP uniqid function without the more_entropy flag. Attackers can guess an Invision Power Board session cookie if they can predict the exact time of cookie generation.
EPSS: 0.013 (66.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.
Affected products
- Invisioncommunity Invision_power_board
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-2564?
- CVE-2016-2564 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board, classified under Insufficient Entropy. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-04-23.
- How severe is CVE-2016-2564?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2016-2564 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.