FKIE_CVE-2026-44040

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-01 05:16 - Updated: 2026-07-02 14:58
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
UltraVNC through 1.8.2.2 uses a cryptographically weak pseudo-random number generator to produce VNC authentication challenge bytes. In rfb/vncauth.c:119-129, the vncRandomBytes() function seeds libc rand() with time(0) + getpid() + rand() and generates a 16-byte challenge. The combined seed space is approximately 31 bits (libc rand() internal state) and is entirely determined by publicly-observable values (wall-clock time and process ID). An attacker who can observe the authentication exchange can enumerate the seed space and predict the challenge within seconds, enabling forgery or offline brute-forcing of responses. Note: on Windows, the active code path may use vncEncryptBytes2.cpp which calls CryptGenRandom; reachability on shipped Windows binaries requires compile-graph verification and is under investigation.
References
33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9chttps://github.com/ultravnc/UltraVNCProduct
33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9chttps://uvnc.com/Product, Release Notes
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
uvnc ultravnc *
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