VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-1426

CVSS score7.4 HIGH
EPSS probability2.41%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-03-22
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

IBM GSKit (IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1) duplicates the PRNG state across fork() system calls when multiple ICC instances are loaded which could result in duplicate Session IDs and a risk of duplicate key material. IBM X-Force ID: 139071.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-335: Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

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