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CVE-2024-7701: Misuse of SHA256 to create an encryption key

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-916

Description

Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in percona percona-toolkit allows Encryption Brute Forcing.This issue affects percona-toolkit: 3.6.0.

Affected products

• percona-toolkit: 3.6.0

References

• https://github.com/percona/percona-toolkit/blob/aa1ac0e6889168fddf73c3a72d447e9ea0c0c63b/src/go/pt-secure-collect/encrypt.go#L17

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