CVE-2008-2019

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 30, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Apr 29, 2008

Description

Simple Machines Forum (SMF), probably 1.1.4, relies on "randomly generated static" to hinder brute-force attacks on the WAV file (aka audio) CAPTCHA, which allows remote attackers to pass the CAPTCHA test via an automated attack that considers Hamming distances. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2007-3308.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

smf-captcha-weak-security(42150)vdb-entry
3836third-party-advisory
28866vdb-entry
20080419 Deciphering the Simple Machines Forum audio Captchamailing-list
http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=6
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?P=c3696c2022b54fa50c5f341bf5710aa3&topic=236816.0

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