PT-2012-1319 · Unknown · Virtual War

Darren Mcdonald · Published 2012-10-08 · Updated 2012-10-08 · CVE-2010-5066

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Virtual War (aka VWar) version 1.6.1 R2

Description The issue concerns the createRandomPassword function, which uses a limited range of values for the seed argument in the PHP mt srand function. This limitation makes it easier for remote attackers to determine randomly generated passwords through a brute-force attack.

Recommendations For Virtual War (aka VWar) version 1.6.1 R2, consider modifying the createRandomPassword function to utilize a more secure method for generating random passwords, such as using a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to password generation functionality to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-5066

Affected Products

Virtual War

References · 3

• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Aug/235 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://dmcdonald.net/vwar.txt · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-5066 · Security Note