What is CVE-2016-3735?

CVE-2016-3735 is a high-severity vulnerability in Piwigo, classified under Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG). CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2022-01-28.

How severe is CVE-2016-3735?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Piwigo

CVE-2016-3735

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.

EPSS: 0.014 (69.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Piwigo
N/a Piwigo — versions piwigo < 2.8.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-335 — Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

References

secalert@redhat.com
secalert@redhat.com
secalert@redhat.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3735?: CVE-2016-3735 is a high-severity vulnerability in Piwigo, classified under Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG). CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2022-01-28.
How severe is CVE-2016-3735?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.