Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting hydrolib-core package, versions [,0.9.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-HYDROLIBCORE-12671320
  • published17 Sept 2025
  • disclosed10 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jul 2025

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hydrolib-core to version 0.9.1 or higher.

Overview

hydrolib-core is a Python wrappers around D-HYDRO Suite.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm via the use of the MD5 hash algorithm in security-sensitive contexts. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to trigger security scanner false positives and cause incompatibility issues in FIPS-compliant environments where MD5 is restricted for cryptographic purposes.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1