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CVE-2008-2019
published 2008-04-30

CVE-2008-2019: Simple Machines Forum (SMF), probably 1.1.4, relies on "randomly generated static" to hinder brute-force attacks on the WAV file (aka audio) CAPTCHA, which…

PriorityP433high7.5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCPIPAP
EPSS
4.05%
89.4th percentile
Simple Machines Forum (SMF), probably 1.1.4, relies on "randomly generated static" to hinder brute-force attacks on the WAV file (aka audio) CAPTCHA, which allows remote attackers to pass the CAPTCHA test via an automated attack that considers Hamming distances. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2007-3308.

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
simple_machinessmf

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
vendor_redhat5.0MEDIUM
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