CVE-2008-1484

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 4.5%

exploitation probability

4.5%top 9% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The password reset feature in PunBB 1.2.16 and earlier uses predictable random numbers based on the system time, which allows remote authenticated users to determine the new password via a brute force attack on a seed that is based on the approximate creation time of the targeted account. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2006-5737.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/5165

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References

http://osvdb.org/45561 http://punbb.org/download/changelogs/1.2.16_to_1.2.17.txt http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18460 http://secunia.com/advisories/29043 http://sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-01.txt https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5165 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488408/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27908