Advisories

newbee-mall Unsalted MD5 Password Hashing Enables Offline Credential Cracking

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severity
critical
date
Affecting
  • newbee-mall <= 1.0.0

CWE
  • CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
CVSS
9.3
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Lennon Chia
Description
newbee-mall stores and verifies user passwords using an unsalted MD5 hashing algorithm. The implementation does not incorporate per-user salts or computational cost controls, enabling attackers who obtain password hashes through database exposure, backup leakage, or other compromise vectors to rapidly recover plaintext credentials via offline attacks.

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