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GET /api/vulnerabilities/2188?format=api
{ "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/2188?format=api", "vulnerability_id": "VCID-k4zg-4qj2-r7eg", "summary": "Security researcher Amit Klein reported that it\nwas possible to reverse engineer the value used to\nseed Math.random(). Since the pseudo-random number\ngenerator was only seeded once per browsing session, this seed value\ncould be used as a unique token to identify and track users across\ndifferent web sites.Update (October 27, 2010): After the Firefox 3.6.4\nand Firefox 3.5.10 releases, Amit Klein reported that there was an\nadditional unfixed case where user tracking could occur using the\nabove-mentioned technique and a pop-up window or iframe that was\nsubsequently navigated by the user. This additional variant is\nidentified as CVE-2010-3171.", "aliases": [ { "alias": "CVE-2008-5913" } ], "fixed_packages": [], "affected_packages": [], "references": [ { "reference_url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5913", "reference_id": "CVE-2008-5913", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5913" }, { "reference_url": "https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-33", "reference_id": "mfsa2010-33", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "low", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" } ], "url": "https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-33" } ], "weaknesses": [], "exploits": [], "severity_range_score": "0.1 - 3", "exploitability": null, "weighted_severity": null, "risk_score": null, "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-k4zg-4qj2-r7eg" }