CVE-2012-3287

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-06-13 19:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-06-14 04:00:00

Affected Software

Poul-Henning Kamp md5crypt

References

http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol.html

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