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GHSA-R44J-CRV5-Q35M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-12-15 12:30 – Updated: 2025-08-05 18:30

Details

Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in percona percona-toolkit allows Encryption Brute Forcing.This issue affects percona-toolkit: 3.6.0.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

5.1 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2024-7701 (GCVE-0-2024-7701)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-15 10:56 – Updated: 2024-12-16 16:41

Title

Misuse of SHA256 to create an encryption key

Summary

Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in percona percona-toolkit allows Encryption Brute Forcing.This issue affects percona-toolkit: 3.6.0.

Severity

5.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-12-16 16:41 UTC

CWE

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

Assigner

CyberArk CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard – unranked: 0 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/percona/percona-toolkit/blob/a…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
percona	percona-toolkit	Affected: 3.6.0

Date Public

2024-12-15 10:41

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