Advisories

admin3 through 3.0.0 Weak Password Hashing via Single-Round MD5

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • admin3 <= 3.0.0

CWE
  • CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort
CVSS
6.9
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Mingsheng Lin
Description
admin3 through 3.0.0 stores account passwords using single-round MD5 with only the username as salt and no key derivation function. Attackers with database access can recover plaintext passwords through offline dictionary or brute-force attacks due to negligible computational effort.

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