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GMS-2015-47: Potential Information Disclosure and Insufficient Entropy in Zend\Captcha\Word

November 23, 2015

Zend generates a “word” for a CAPTCHA challenge by selecting a sequence of random letters from a character set. The selection is 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 can 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

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Affected versions

All versions 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.

Source file

packagist/zendframework/zend-captcha/GMS-2015-47.yml

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