Bug 1192474 (CVE-2014-6412)

Summary:	CVE-2014-6412 wordpress: lack of CSPRNG might lead to information disclosure
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, fedora, gwync
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1192475, 1192476
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-13 13:28:21 UTC

It was reported [1] that all versions of WordPress are using weak random number generation algorithm, which makes it possible to predict the password reset token for admin user.
Non-upstream patch is available here:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/28633/28633.3.patch

[1]: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/42

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-13 13:28:52 UTC

Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1192475]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1192476]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:38:49 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.