CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-10538

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-02-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-02-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-916

Description

An issue was discovered in Epikur before 20.1.1. It stores the secret passwords of the users as MD5 hashes in the database. MD5 can be brute-forced efficiently and should not be used for such purposes. Additionally, since no salt is used, rainbow tables can speed up the attack.

Affected configurations

• epikur epikur (< 20.1.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort weakness

References