CVE-2018-6337

high

Description

folly::secureRandom will re-use a buffer between parent and child processes when fork() is called. That will result in multiple forked children producing repeat (or similar) results. This affects HHVM 3.26 prior to 3.26.3 and the folly library between v2017.12.11.00 and v2018.08.09.00.

References

https://hhvm.com/blog/2018/05/24/hhvm-3.26.3.html

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/commit/e2d10a1e32d01f71aaadd81169bcb9ae86c5d6b8

https://github.com/facebook/folly/commit/8e927ee48b114c8a2f90d0cbd5ac753795a6761f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-12-31

Updated: 2019-10-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High