CVE-2016-3735

Published Jan 28, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 8.1 High EPSS 1.4% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-4748 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 12:03 AM
Reserved
Mar 30, 2016, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 28, 2022, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:46 AM