Cryptographic Issues Affecting php package, versions [,5.3.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.15% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335113
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Aug 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Aug 2011

CVE-2011-2483  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.3.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues crypt_blowfish before 1.1, as used in PHP before 5.3.7 on certain platforms, PostgreSQL before 8.4.9, and other products, does not properly handle 8-bit characters, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine a cleartext password by leveraging knowledge of a password hash.

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