CVE-2026-80211 (GCVE-0-2026-80211)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-27 14:50 – Updated: 2026-08-29 02:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 Use of Unsalted MD5 for Password Storage
Summary
FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 stores and verifies user passwords as unsalted MD5 digests. admin/users.php passes md5($_POST['password']) to add_user() and update_user_password(), admin/change_current_user_password.php does the same when a user changes their own password, the forgotten-password path in includes/current_user.inc hashes the newly generated password the same way, and authentication calls get_user_auth($loginname, md5($password)). The codebase applies no per-password salt and contains no call to password_hash(), password_verify() or any other adaptive hash, so identical passwords yield identical digests and an attacker who obtains the user table can recover plaintext passwords with precomputed lookup tables or high-rate GPU cracking.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-29 02:58 UTC
CWE
- CWE-916 - Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/FA.md#f… | third-party-advisory |
| https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FA | product |
| https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FA/blob/946… | technical-description |
| https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frontaccount… | third-party-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FrontAccounting | FrontAccounting |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2.4.20
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:frontaccounting:frontaccounting:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
2026-08-26 00:00
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