# CVE-2007-2728: Other in n/a

> The PHP soap extension uses an uninitialized seed for random number generation, potentially weakening cryptographic operations, though the impact is disputed.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not stated
- **Attackable:** Not stated
- **Victim action needed:** Not stated
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 May 2007
- **Updated:** 29 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g6ph-v22v-23j6, MINI-f356-x2gq-wx8c, MINI-hhmx-h3q4-569f, MINI-qvqc-8v5p-jx6w, MINI-vf63-vj4j-cjp2

## What is CVE-2007-2728?

CVE-2007-2728 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 May 2007. 

### Official 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.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-2728?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Php Php.

## How do I fix CVE-2007-2728?

No fix published yet.

## Is CVE-2007-2728 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-2728 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2007-2728 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2007-2728 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 May 2007. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-2728 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-2728/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-2728/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-2728
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2728
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-2728

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.