Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt Affecting manifest package, versions <4.9.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-MANIFEST-9056252
  • published4 Mar 2025
  • disclosed28 Feb 2025
  • creditprokofitch

Introduced: 28 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2025-27408  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-759  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade manifest to version 4.9.2 or higher.

Overview

manifest is a The 1-file micro-backend

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt. In the AuthService class in auth.service.ts, passwords are hashed using SHA3 without a salt. An attacker in possession of the user database can discover that passwords for multiple users are identical due to their identical hashes.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1