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[20210302] - Core - Potential Insecure FOFEncryptRandval

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Impact: Low
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.2.0 - 3.9.24
  • Exploit type: Insecure Randomness
  • Reported Date: 2021-01-13
  • Fixed Date: 2021-03-02
  • CVE Number: CVE-2021-23128

Description

The core shipped but unused randval implementation within FOF (FOFEncryptRandval) used an potential insecure implemetation. That has now been replaced with a call to "random_bytes()" and its backport that is shipped within random_compat.

This issue has been coordinated with Akeeba Ltd as contributor of the original FOF codebase to the core.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.2.0 - 3.9.24

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.9.25

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Hanno Böck