CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-3287
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
Poul-Henning Kamp md5crypt has insufficient algorithmic complexity and a consequently short runtime, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to discover cleartext passwords via a brute-force attack, as demonstrated by an attack using GPU hardware.
Affected configurations
• poul-henning kamp md5crypt
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol.html Vendor Advisory
- https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol/ phk.freebsd.dk
- http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol.html Vendor Advisory
- https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol/ phk.freebsd.dk