Weak Encoding for Password Affecting @strapi/admin package, versions <5.10.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-STRAPIADMIN-13601311
  • published17 Oct 2025
  • disclosed16 Oct 2025
  • creditSinan

Introduced: 16 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2025-25298  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-261  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade @strapi/admin to version 5.10.3 or higher.

Overview

@strapi/admin is a Strapi Admin

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Weak Encoding for Password in to the implementation of password hashing. An attacker can reduce the effective entropy of user passwords and potentially mislead users about the required password length by submitting passwords longer than 72 bytes, which are silently truncated during hashing.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1