The Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) in PHP before 5.2.13 does not provide the expected entropy, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess values that were intended to be unpredictable, as demonstrated by session cookies generated by using the uniqid function.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T01:14:06.300Z

Reserved: 2010-03-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-1128

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-03-26T20:30:00.877

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-1128

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2010-02-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-1128 - Bugzilla

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