CVE-2026-93868 PUBLISHED

Cotonti through 1.0.0 Predictable Password Recovery Token via Weak PRNG

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 18.09.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

Cotonti through 1.0.0 derives password recovery validation tokens from md5(microtime()) in users.passrecover.php, creating a predictable token space of approximately one million values per second. Unauthenticated attackers can read the server Date header, precompute candidate tokens within a narrow time window, and probe them against the passrecover authentication endpoint to reset any account password including administrators.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

Vendor Cotonti
Product Cotonti
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.0.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Harsh Raj Singhania reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) CWE