CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4269
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-08-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
The password hash generation algorithm in the BUILTIN authentication functionality for Apache Derby before 10.6.1.0 performs a transformation that reduces the size of the set of inputs to SHA-1, which produces a small search space that makes it easier for local and possibly remote attackers to crack passwords by generating hash collisions, related to password substitution.
Affected configurations
• apache derby (<= 10.5.3.0)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://blogs.sun.com/kah/entry/derby_10_6_1_has blogs.sun.com
- http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.6.1.0.cgi#Fix+for+Security+Bug+CVE-2009-4269 db.apache.org
- http://marc.info/?l=apache-db-general&m=127428514905504&w=1 marc.info
- http://marcellmajor.com/derbyhash.html marcellmajor.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42948 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42970 secunia.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2011-194091.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42637 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024977 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0149 www.vupen.com
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4483 Vendor Advisory
- http://blogs.sun.com/kah/entry/derby_10_6_1_has blogs.sun.com
- http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.6.1.0.cgi#Fix+for+Security+Bug+CVE-2009-4269 db.apache.org
- http://marc.info/?l=apache-db-general&m=127428514905504&w=1 marc.info
- http://marcellmajor.com/derbyhash.html marcellmajor.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42948 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42970 secunia.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2011-194091.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42637 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024977 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0149 www.vupen.com
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4483 Vendor Advisory