A tale of two eras

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. To the surprise of absolutely no one who has seen my face, I'm one of the younger employees at Talos. As my industry veteran colleagues were buying the first iPods, navigating the switch from dial-up to broadband, saying goodbye to...

CVE-2026-11789

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The SMD5 password storage plugin performs unsigned integer underflow when computing salt length from a crafted password hash shorter than 16 bytes, causing a buffer over-read that crashes the LDAP server during authentication...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-11789

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The SMD5 password storage plugin performs unsigned integer underflow when computing salt length from a crafted password hash shorter than 16 bytes, causing a buffer over-read that crashes the LDAP server during authentication...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-11789

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The SMD5 password storage plugin performs unsigned integer underflow when computing salt length from a crafted password hash shorter than 16 bytes, causing a buffer over-read that crashes the LDAP server during authentication...

CVE-2026-11790 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: pbkdf2 password storage plugin unbounded iteration count denial of service

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The PBKDF2-SHA256 password storage plugin does not enforce an upper bound on the iteration count extracted from stored password hashes. A privileged attacker who can modify a user's password hash can cause excessive CPU consumption during authentication,...

CVE-2026-11789 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: smd5 password storage plugin salt length integer underflow crash

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The SMD5 password storage plugin performs unsigned integer underflow when computing salt length from a crafted password hash shorter than 16 bytes, causing a buffer over-read that crashes the LDAP server during authentication...

PT-2026-47779

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The SMD5 password storage plugin performs unsigned integer underflow when computing salt length from a crafted password hash shorter than 16 bytes, causing a buffer over-read that crashes the LDAP server during authentication...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: perl-Crypt-Argon2-0.031-1.fc44

This module implements the Argon2 key derivation function, which is suitable to convert any password into a cryptographic key. This is most often used to for secure storage of passwords but can also be used to derive a encryption key from a password. It offers variable time and memory costs as we...

[SECURITY] Fedora 43 Update: perl-Crypt-Argon2-0.031-1.fc43

This module implements the Argon2 key derivation function, which is suitable to convert any password into a cryptographic key. This is most often used to for secure storage of passwords but can also be used to derive a encryption key from a password. It offers variable time and memory costs as we...

CVE-2026-45413

MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.9.1, user passwords are stored using unsalted MD5 hashes, making them trivially crackable via rainbow tables or GPU-accelerated brute force hashcat. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.1...

CVE-2026-45413

MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.9.1, user passwords are stored using unsalted MD5 hashes, making them trivially crackable via rainbow tables or GPU-accelerated brute force hashcat. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.1...

PT-2026-43406

MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.9.1, user passwords are stored using unsalted MD5 hashes, making them trivially crackable via rainbow tables or GPU-accelerated brute force hashcat. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.1...

SOGo SQL注入漏洞

SOGo is a very fast and scalable modern collaboration suite open source by Alinto. It offers calendar management, address book management, a fully functional webmail client, as well as features for resource sharing and permission handling. Versions of SOGo prior to 5.12.7 had an SQL injection...

CVE-2026-6500

Plaintext storage of a password vulnerability in ILM Informatique OpenConcerto allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. This issue affects OpenConcerto: 1.7.5...

CVE-2026-6500

Plaintext storage of a password vulnerability in ILM Informatique OpenConcerto allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. This issue affects OpenConcerto: 1.7.5...

CVE-2026-6500

Plaintext storage of a password vulnerability in ILM Informatique OpenConcerto allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. This issue affects OpenConcerto: 1.7.5...

CVE-2026-6500

CVE-2026-6500 concerns a plaintext password storage vulnerability in OpenConcerto 1.7.5 by ILM Informatique. The issue allows retrieval of embedded sensitive data due to unencrypted passwords stored in plaintext. The available connected records confirm affected product/version and the root cause ...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in LibreOffice

LibreOffice supports the storage of passwords for web connections in the user’s configuration database. The stored passwords are encrypted using a single master key provided by the user. There was a flaw in LibreOffice where the required initialization vector for encryption was always the same,...

CVE-2026-6553

TYPO3 CMS 14.2.0 is affected by CVE-2026-6553 where changing backend users’ passwords via the user settings module stores the cleartext password in the be_users.uc and be_users.user_settings fields. The root cause is plaintext password storage in these fields, leading to exposure of credentials. ...

CVE-2026-6553 TYPO3 CMS Stores Cleartext Password in User Settings Module

Changing backend users' passwords via the user settings module results in storing the cleartext password in the uc and usersettings fields of the beusers database table. This issue affects TYPO3 CMS version 14.2.0...