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ghsa-cxm3-2c37-cc6h

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-06-24 09:30

Modified

2024-06-24 09:30

Details

Bludit uses the SHA-1 hashing algorithm to compute password hashes. Thus, attackers could determine cleartext passwords with brute-force attacks due to the inherent speed of SHA-1. In addition, the salt that is computed by Bludit is generated with a non-cryptographically secure function.

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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-24553"
  ],
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  "id": "GHSA-cxm3-2c37-cc6h",
  "modified": "2024-06-24T09:30:52Z",
  "published": "2024-06-24T09:30:52Z",
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cve-2024-24553

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-06-24 07:10

Modified

2024-08-01 23:19

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.redguard.ch/blog/2024/06/20/security-advisory-bludit/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Bludit	Bludit	Version: 2.0

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