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CVE-2019-20138

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-12-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-327

Description

The HTTP Authentication library before 2019-12-27 for Nim has weak password hashing because the default algorithm for libsodium's crypto_pwhash_str is not used.

Affected products

• Http Authentication Library Project Http Authentication Library: before 2019-12-27 — fixed in 2019-12-27

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Http Authentication Library Project Http Authentication Library 2019-12-27. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/nim-httpauth/commit/15fd0686dc363075c08976ad897d6c92e1e6283c
• https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/nim-httpauth/commit/15fd0686dc363075c08976ad897d6c92e1e6283c

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