5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
49.8%
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.
Author | Note |
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jdstrand | As of 8.10, Ubuntu has moved away from using MD5 in a security context. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features for details. |