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CVE-2011-3189

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-08-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-310

Description

The crypt function in PHP 5.3.7, when the MD5 hash type is used, returns the value of the salt argument instead of the hashed string, which might allow remote attackers to bypass authentication via an arbitrary password, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2483.

Affected products

• PHP: 5.3.7

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
• http://osvdb.org/74726
• http://secunia.com/advisories/45678
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/23/4
• http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.8
• http://www.php.net/archive/2011.php#id2011-08-23-1
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380261
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55439
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69429
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
• http://osvdb.org/74726

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