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CVE-2012-3287

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-06-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-310

Description

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.

Affected products

• Poul-Henning Kamp Md5Crypt: all versions

References

• http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol.html
• https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol/
• http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol.html
• https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol/

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