CVE-2023-40173
Prior to version 1.0.5 Social media skeleton did not properly salt passwords leaving user passwords susceptible to cracking should an attacker gain access to hashed passwords.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.66%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Social media skeleton is an uncompleted/framework social media project implemented using a php, css ,javascript and html. Prior to version 1.0.5 Social media skeleton did not properly salt passwords leaving user passwords susceptible to cracking should an attacker gain access to hashed passwords. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.5 and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.66% probability · 50th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-522
- Affected
- fobybus/social-media-skeleton
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/344d798e82d6cc39844962c6d3cb2560f5907848Patch
- https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/df31da44ffed3ea065cbbadc3c8052d0d489a2efPatch
- https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-rfmv-7m7g-v628Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/344d798e82d6cc39844962c6d3cb2560f5907848Patch
- https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/df31da44ffed3ea065cbbadc3c8052d0d489a2efPatch
- https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-rfmv-7m7g-v628Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.