CVE-2024-40761 (GCVE-0-2024-40761)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-25 07:31
Modified
2024-09-27 19:02
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-326 - Inadequate Encryption Strength
Summary
Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in Apache Answer.
This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.3.5.
Using the MD5 value of a user's email to access Gravatar is insecure and can lead to the leakage of user email. The official recommendation is to use SHA256 instead.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.4.0, which fixes the issue.
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Answer |
Version: 0 ≤ 1.3.5 |
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