Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) Affecting cotonti/cotonti package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-COTONTICOTONTI-20158817
  • published27 Sept 2026
  • disclosed18 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-93868  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-338  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for cotonti/cotonti.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) via the users.passrecover.php process. An attacker can reset any account password, including administrators, by precomputing candidate tokens within a narrow time window and probing them against the password recovery authentication endpoint.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1