CVE-2007-2728

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The soap extension in PHP calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a related issue to the mcrypt_create_iv issue covered by CVE-2007-2727. Note: The PHP team argue that this is not a valid security issue.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 6.10, 7.04
PHP: all versions

References

http://blog.php-security.org/archives/80-Watching-the-PHP-CVS.html
http://osvdb.org/36086
http://secunia.com/advisories/25306
http://secunia.com/advisories/26102
http://secunia.com/advisories/26895
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:187
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-485-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1839
http://blog.php-security.org/archives/80-Watching-the-PHP-CVS.html
http://osvdb.org/36086
http://secunia.com/advisories/25306

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