The mcrypt_create_iv function in ext/mcrypt/mcrypt.c in PHP before 4.4.7, 5.2.1, and possibly 5.0.x and other PHP 5 versions, calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable and therefore always generates the same initialization vector (IV), which might allow context-dependent attackers to decrypt certain data more easily because of the guessable encryption keys.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T13:49:57.260Z
Reserved: 2007-05-16T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-2727

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2007-05-16T22:30:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2007-2727

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