Cotonti through 1.0.0 Predictable Password Recovery Token via Weak PRNG
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.
Evidence and details
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-93868
Cotonti
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
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- Prerequisites
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- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-93868
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Publisher severity
critical
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics