Cryptographic Issues Affecting bcrypt package, versions <5.0.0
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- published 1 Jul 2020
- disclosed 13 Jan 2020
- credit Felix
How to fix?
Upgrade bcrypt to version 5.0.0 or higher.
Overview
bcrypt is an A library to help you hash passwords.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues. When hashing a password containing an ASCII NUL character, that character acts as the string terminator. Any following characters are ignored.
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