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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3287
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/310.html

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

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