Vulnerability in Solar Designer Crypt Blowfish

CVE-2006-0591

The crypt_gensalt functions for BSDI-style extended DES-based and FreeBSD-sytle MD5-based password hashes in crypt_blowfish 0.4.7 and earlier do not evenly and randomly distribute salts, which makes it easier for attackers to guess passwords from a stolen password file due to the increased number of collisions.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

EPSS: 0.004 (32.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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