CVE-2010-1128 (GCVE-0-2010-1128)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2010-03-26 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 01:14
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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