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CVE-2008-2019

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2008-04-30 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Simple Machines Forum (SMF), probably 1.1.4, relies on "randomly generated static" to hinder brute-force attacks on the WAV file (aka audio) CAPTCHA, which allows remote attackers to pass the CAPTCHA test via an automated attack that considers Hamming distances. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2007-3308.

Affected Platforms

Simple Machines Smf

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References