VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2021-23128
CVSS score9.1 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-03-04
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
An issue was discovered in Joomla! 3.2.0 through 3.9.24. The core shipped but unused randval implementation within FOF (FOFEncryptRandval) used an potential insecure implemetation. That has now been replaced with a call to 'random_bytes()' and its backport that is shipped within random_compat.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo
Primary references
- security@joomla.org — Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory