CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-3287

Published: Jun 13, 2012 | Modified: Feb 14, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Md5crypt Poul-henning_kamp - (including) - (including)

References