CVE-2011-2483

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

Publication date:

25/08/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::		5.3.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	8.2.0 (including)	8.2.22 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	8.3.0 (including)	8.3.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	8.4.0 (including)	8.4.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	9.0.0 (including)	9.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:openwall:crypt_blowfish::::::::		1.1 (excluding)

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CVE-2011-2483

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools