Description
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.
Published: 2010-03-26
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: 4.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2089-1 New php5 packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-1159 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-989-1 PHP vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T01:14:06.300Z

Reserved: 2010-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-1128

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-03-26T20:30:00.877

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-1128

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2010-02-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-1128 - Bugzilla

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