CVE-2011-0009

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Best Practical Solutions RT 3.x before 3.8.9rc2 and 4.x before 4.0.0rc4 uses the MD5 algorithm for password hashes, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords via a brute-force attack on the database.

Affected products

bestpractical rt: through 3.8.9; 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+143)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610850
http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2011-January/000185.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054740.html
http://osvdb.org/70661
http://secunia.com/advisories/43438
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2150
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45959
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0190
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0475
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0576
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672250
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

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