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CVE-2014-3945

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-06-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The Authentication component in TYPO3 before 6.2, when salting for password hashing is disabled, does not require knowledge of the cleartext password if the password hash is known, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to the backend by leveraging knowledge of a password hash.

Affected products

• typo3: through 6.1.9; 4.0, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4 (+179)

References

• http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-core/typo3-core-sa-2014-001/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2942
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/03/2
• http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-core/typo3-core-sa-2014-001/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2942
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/03/2

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