GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

Background GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also used for hardware testing. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation...

Gratipay: Gratipay uses the random module's cryptographically insecure PRNG.

Dear Gratipay bug bounty team, Summary --- Gratipay currently uses the random module's pseudo-random number generator which is not a cryptographically secure PRNG as stated in the docs: The pseudo-random generators of this module should not be used for security purposes. For security or...

Advisory SE-2008-01: PunBB Blind Password Recovery Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SektionEins GmbH www.sektioneins.de -= Security Advisory =- Advisory: PunBB Blind Password Recovery Vulnerability Release Date: 2008/02/20 Last Modified: 2008/02/20 Author: Stefan Esser stefan.esseratsektioneins.de Application: PunBB = 1.2.16 Severity...

CVE-2004-1116: Undefined Security Weakness

The init scripts in Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search GIMPS 23.9 and earlier execute user-owned programs with root privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the programs...