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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-1128

Overview

The Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) in PHP before 5.2.13 does not provide the expected entropy, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess values that were intended to be unpredictable, as demonstrated by session cookies generated by using the uniqid function.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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Vulnerable software and versions

Configuration 1

OR

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.12 and previous versions

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.11

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.10

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.1

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.9

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.8

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.7

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.6

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.5

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.4

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.3

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.2

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.0

* Denotes Vulnerable Software

* Changes related to vulnerability configurations