🛡️ CVE-2016-5100 — froxlor

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-330 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Froxlor guessable password reset token

Froxlor before 0.9.35 uses the PHP rand function for random number generation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess the password reset token by predicting a value.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-5100 is classified as CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values. Values that must be unpredictable are generated in a way an attacker can guess or reproduce.

Affected software

CVE-2016-5100 is recorded against 1 package.

  • froxlor/froxlor (fixed in 0.9.35)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 25 April 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-330
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-04-25
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
froxlor/froxlor — 0.9.35

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