CVE-2008-1148

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

A certain pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) algorithm that uses ADD with 0 random hops (aka "Algorithm A0"), as used in OpenBSD 3.5 through 4.2 and NetBSD 1.6.2 through 4.0, allows remote attackers to guess sensitive values such as (1) DNS transaction IDs or (2) IP fragmentation IDs by observing a sequence of previously generated values. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged for attacks such as DNS cache poisoning, injection into TCP packets, and OS fingerprinting.

Affected products

Cosmicperl Directory Pro: 10.0.3
Darwin: 1.0, 9.1
Navision Financials Server: 3.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28819
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5PP0H0UNGW.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487658
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27647
http://www.trusteer.com/docs/OpenBSD_DNS_Cache_Poisoning_and_Multiple_OS_Predictable_IP_ID_Vulnerability.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40329
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41157
http://secunia.com/advisories/28819
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5PP0H0UNGW.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487658
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27647
http://www.trusteer.com/docs/OpenBSD_DNS_Cache_Poisoning_and_Multiple_OS_Predictable_IP_ID_Vulnerability.pdf

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