Description
Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite before 4.1.9 makes session hijack easier by relying on the PHP uniqid function without the more_entropy flag. Attackers can guess an Invision Power Board session cookie if they can predict the exact time of cookie generation.
Published: 2017-04-23
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3638 Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite before 4.1.9 makes session hijack easier by relying on the PHP uniqid function without the more_entropy flag. Attackers can guess an Invision Power Board session cookie if they can predict the exact time of cookie generation.
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Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:32:20.962Z

Reserved: 2016-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2564

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-04-23T15:59:00.153

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-2564

cve-icon Redhat

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