Manifest Uses a One-Way Hash without a Salt

Summary Manifest employs a weak password hashing implementation that uses SHA3 without a salt. This exposes user passwords to a higher risk of being cracked if an attacker gains access to the database. Without the use of a salt, identical passwords across multiple users will result in the same...

CVE-2025-27408 Manifest Uses a One-Way Hash without a Salt

Manifest offers users a one-file micro back end. Prior to version 4.9.2, Manifest employs a weak password hashing implementation that uses SHA3 without a salt. This exposes user passwords to a higher risk of being cracked if an attacker gains access to the database. Without the use of a salt,...

CVE-2025-27408: Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt

Manifest offers users a one-file micro back end. Prior to version 4.9.2, Manifest employs a weak password hashing implementation that uses SHA3 without a salt. This exposes user passwords to a higher risk of being cracked if an attacker gains access to the database. Without the use of a salt,...

Three Password Cracking Techniques and How to Defend Against Them

Passwords are rarely appreciated until a security breach occurs; suffice to say, the importance of a strong password becomes clear only when faced with the consequences of a weak one. However, most end users are unaware of just how vulnerable their passwords are to the most common password-cracki...

CVE-2025-26410

The firmware of all Wattsense Bridge devices contain the same hard-coded user and root credentials. The user password can be easily recovered via password cracking attempts. The recovered credentials can be used to log into the device via the login shell that is exposed by the serial interface. T...

CVE-2025-26410 Weak Hard-coded Credentials

The firmware of all Wattsense Bridge devices contain the same hard-coded user and root credentials. The user password can be easily recovered via password cracking attempts. The recovered credentials can be used to log into the device via the login shell that is exposed by the serial interface. T...

CVE-2025-26410 Weak Hard-coded Credentials

The firmware of all Wattsense Bridge devices contain the same hard-coded user and root credentials. The user password can be easily recovered via password cracking attempts. The recovered credentials can be used to log into the device via the login shell that is exposed by the serial interface. T...

CVE-2025-26410

The Wattsense Bridge firmware contains hard-coded user and root credentials across all devices. The user password can be easily recovered through password cracking attempts, allowing an attacker to gain access via the login shell exposed through the serial interface . This vulnerability affects v...

Wattsense Bridge 安全漏洞

Wattsense Bridge is an intuitive and powerful IoT gateway from Wattsense. Wattsense Bridge has a security vulnerability that stems from the fact that user passwords can be easily recovered through password cracking attempts...

How Long Does It Take Hackers to Crack Modern Hashing Algorithms?

While passwords remain the first line of defense for protecting user accounts against unauthorized access, the methods for creating strong passwords and protecting them are continually evolving. For example, NIST password recommendations are now prioritizing password length over complexity...

CVE-2025-22390

An issue was discovered in Optimizely EPiServer.CMS.Core before 12.32.0. A medium-severity vulnerability exists in the CMS due to insufficient enforcement of password complexity requirements. The application permits users to set passwords with a minimum length of 6 characters, lacking adequate...

CVE-2025-22390: Weak Password Requirements

An issue was discovered in Optimizely EPiServer.CMS.Core before 12.32.0. A medium-severity vulnerability exists in the CMS due to insufficient enforcement of password complexity requirements. The application permits users to set passwords with a minimum length of 6 characters, lacking adequate...

A Hacker's Guide to Password Cracking

Defending your organization's security is like fortifying a castle—you need to understand where attackers will strike and how they'll try to breach your walls. And hackers are always searching for weaknesses, whether it's a lax password policy or a forgotten backdoor. To build a stronger defense,...

Security Flaw in Styra's OPA Exposes NTLM Hashes to Remote Attackers

Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw in Styra's Open Policy Agent OPA that, if successfully exploited, could have led to leakage of New Technology LAN Manager NTLM hashes. "The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to leak the NTLM credentials of the OPA server's local us...

Rocket.Chat 安全漏洞

Rocket.Chat is a chat program from Rocket.Chat, Inc. A security vulnerability exists in Rocket.Chat versions prior to 4.5.1 that stems from insufficient entropy in generated E2EE passwords. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to crack passwords...

CVE-2024-8455

The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. For certain switch models, the authentication tokens used during communication with this service are encoded user passwords. Due to insufficient strength, unauthorized remote attackers who intercept the packets ca...

CVE-2024-8453

Certain switch models from PLANET Technology use an insecure hashing function to hash user passwords without being salted. Remote attackers with administrator privileges can read configuration files to obtain the hash values, and potentially crack them to retrieve the plaintext passwords...

CVE-2024-8455: Weak Encoding for Password

The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. For certain switch models, the authentication tokens used during communication with this service are encoded user passwords. Due to insufficient strength, unauthorized remote attackers who intercept the packets ca...

CVE-2024-36440

An issue was discovered on Swissphone DiCal-RED 4009 devices. An attacker with access to the file /etc/deviceconfig may recover the administrative device password via password-cracking methods, because unsalted MD5 is used...

CVE-2024-38881: Use of a One-Way Hash with a Predictable Salt

An issue in Horizon Business Services Inc. Caterease 16.0.1.1663 through 24.0.1.2405 and possibly later versions, allows a remote attacker to perform a Rainbow Table Password cracking attack due to the use of one-way hashes without salts when storing user passwords...