CVE-2026-80211
FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 Use of Unsalted MD5 for Password Storage
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.2 High
- Published
- Aug 27, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 24, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 25, 2026
Description
FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 stores and verifies user passwords as unsalted MD5 digests. admin/users.php passes md5($_POST['password']) to add_user() and update_user_password(), admin/change_current_user_password.php does the same when a user changes their own password, the forgotten-password path in includes/current_user.inc hashes the newly generated password the same way, and authentication calls get_user_auth($loginname, md5($password)). The codebase applies no per-password salt and contains no call to password_hash(), password_verify() or any other adaptive hash, so identical passwords yield identical digests and an attacker who obtains the user table can recover plaintext passwords with precomputed lookup tables or high-rate GPU cracking.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.2 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 5.9 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
FrontAccountingFrontAccounting |
|
References
- geo-chen/oss: FrontAccounting Finding 2third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FAproduct
- https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FA/blob/9464a3ffef03c139d9396e697bce9a0a9f131a72/includes/current_user.inc#L79technical-description
- VulnCheck Advisory: FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 Use of Unsalted MD5 for Password Storagethird-party-advisory
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