CVE-2008-1484: Punbb

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The password reset feature in PunBB 1.2.16 and earlier uses predictable random numbers based on the system time, which allows remote authenticated users to determine the new password via a brute force attack on a seed that is based on the approximate creation time of the targeted account. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2006-5737.

Affected products

• Punbb Punbb: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0_alpha only; version 1.0_beta1 only; version 1.0_beta2 only; version 1.0_beta3 only; …

Published 2008-03-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.