5.3

CVE-2024-40761

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.

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Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Apache ≫ Answer Version <= 1.3.5
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 1.38% 0.795
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 5.3 3.9 1.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength

The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required.