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GHSA-mg4x-prh7-g4mx: Zend-Captcha Information Disclosure and Insufficient Entropy vulnerability

June 7, 2024

In Zend Framework, Zend_Captcha_Word (v1) and Zend\Captcha\Word (v2) generate a “word” for a CAPTCHA challenge by selecting a sequence of random letters from a character set. Prior to this advisory, the selection was performed using PHP’s internal array_rand() function. This function does not generate sufficient entropy due to its usage of rand() instead of more cryptographically secure methods such as openssl_pseudo_random_bytes(). This could potentially lead to information disclosure should an attacker be able to brute force the random number generation.

References

  • framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2015-09
  • github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/zendframework/zend-captcha/ZF2015-09.yaml
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-mg4x-prh7-g4mx
  • github.com/zendframework/zend-captcha
  • github.com/zendframework/zend-captcha/commit/43c276df6e94e498bf530538aea53876a24fc47c
  • github.com/zendframework/zend-captcha/commit/5561ef813bb4ad814e835343289dc5077d2eb262

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.0.0 before 2.4.9, all versions starting from 2.5.0 before 2.5.2

Fixed versions

  • 2.4.9
  • 2.5.2

Solution

Upgrade to versions 2.4.9, 2.5.2 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-331: Insufficient Entropy

Source file

packagist/zendframework/zend-captcha/GHSA-mg4x-prh7-g4mx.yml

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