Medium severity · published Mar 4, 2021
CVE-2021-23126
An issue was discovered in Joomla! 3.2.0 through 3.9.24
5.3
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Joomla! 3.2.0 through 3.9.24. Usage of the insecure rand() function within the process of generating the 2FA secret.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 66% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JO
Joomla · Joomla
3.2.0 before 3.9.25 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23126
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23126
Vendor Advisory
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/841-20210301-core-insecure-randomness-within-2fa-secret-generation.html
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