CVE-2008-3072

HIGH 7.5CVE-2008-3072 · Published 08/07/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-3072 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting simple machines forum (simple machines).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.99%, higher than 62.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
simple machines forum simple_machines	`≤ 1.0.12≤ 1.1.4`	No fix yet

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.

References

secunia.com/advisories/30955
simplemachines.org/community/index.php

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