CVE-2018-1426 — Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator in IBM DB2
Severity
9.1CRITICALNVD
CNA7.4
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 22
Latest updateMay 13
Description
IBM GSKit (IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1) duplicates the PRNG state across fork() system calls when multiple ICC instances are loaded which could result in duplicate Session IDs and a risk of duplicate key material. IBM X-Force ID: 139071.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.2