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CVE-2024-40761

Sept. 26, 2024, 1:32 p.m.

Tags

security@apache.org
CWE-326
2024-09-25
CVE-2024-40761

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

Apache Answer

  • through 1.3.5

Description

Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.3.5. Using the MD5 value of a user's email to access Gravatar is insecure and can lead to the leakage of user email. The official recommendation is to use SHA256 instead. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.4.0, which fixes the issue.

Weaknesses

CWE-326
Inadequate Encryption Strength

The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required.

CWE ID: 326

Date

Published: Sept. 25, 2024, 8:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Sept. 26, 2024, 1:32 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@apache.org

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score
5.3
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

https://lists.apache.org/ security@apache.org