CVE-2016-2564

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.9
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-2564
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-04-23T15:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-06-03T14:54:54
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-331 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/331.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:invisioncommunity:invision_power_board:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.1.8.1
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5.9
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.2
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://medium.com/@iancarroll/bypassing-authentication-in-invision-power-board-with-cve-2016-2564-9a24ea3655f9 Exploit Technical Description Third Party Advisory
https://invisionpower.com/release-notes/419-r37/ Release Notes Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2564
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2564
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:29:36 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 16:10:27 2017-04-23T15:59Z 2017-04-23T15:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 16:10:27 2020-06-03T14:54:54 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 16:10:27 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated