CVE-2011-2483
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-310
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
crypt_blowfish before 1.1, as used in PHP before 5.3.7 on certain platforms, PostgreSQL before 8.4.9, and other products, does not properly handle 8-bit characters, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine a cleartext password by leveraging knowledge of a password hash.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://freshmeat.net/projects/crypt_blowfish
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00015.htmlAdvisory
- http://php.net/security/crypt_blowfishAdvisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2340Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2399Advisory