The soap extension in PHP calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a related…

Description

The soap extension in PHP calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a related issue to the mcrypt_create_iv issue covered by CVE-2007-2727. Note: The PHP team argue that this is not a valid security issue.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 25306 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://blog.php-security.org/archives/80-Watching-the-PHP-CVS.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• ADV-2007-1839 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• USN-485-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• MDKSA-2007:187 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 26895 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 26102 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 36086 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2007:015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2007-2728](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2007-2728.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2007-2728)

Record last updated 29 Aug 2024, 16:00 UTC.