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FKIE_CVE-2008-4905

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-11-04 00:58 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:58

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

Typo 5.1.3 and earlier uses a hard-coded salt for calculating password hashes, which makes it easier for attackers to guess passwords via a brute force attack.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/32272	Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4550	Broken Link
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497970	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/32272	Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4550	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497970	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	typosphere	typo	*

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CVE-2008-4905 (GCVE-0-2008-4905)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-04 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:31

Summary

Typo 5.1.3 and earlier uses a hard-coded salt for calculating password hashes, which makes it easier for attackers to guess passwords via a brute force attack.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2339 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497970	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/32272	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4550	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON

Date Public

2008-10-30 00:00

Show details on NVD website

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Sightings

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