Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-23126
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-23126
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:58.722000461Z",
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