PT-2017-8055 · Invision Power Services · Invision Power Services Community Suite

Published 2017-04-23 · Updated 2020-06-03 · CVE-2016-2564

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite versions prior to 4.1.9

Description The issue 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.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.1.9, update to version 4.1.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-331

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-2564

Affected Products

Invision Power Services Community Suite

References · 5

• 🔥 https://medium.com/@iancarroll/bypassing-authentication-in-invision-power-board-with-cve-2016-2564-9a24ea3655f9 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2564 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2564 · Security Note
• https://invisionpower.com/release-notes/419-r37 · Vendor Advisory
• https://medium.com/%40iancarroll/bypassing-authentication-in-invision-power-board-with-cve-2016-2564-9a24ea3655f9 · Note