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CVE-2008-3072

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1.x before 1.1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.13, when running in PHP before 4.2.0, does not properly seed the random number generator, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Affected products

• Simple Machines Forum: through 1.0.12; through 1.1.4

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/30955
• http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?P=c3696c2022b54fa50c5f341bf5710aa3&topic=236816.0
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30955
• http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?P=c3696c2022b54fa50c5f341bf5710aa3&topic=236816.0

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