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TI-2026-55452 Aliases CVE-2026-80211GHSA-hc7j-jf63-wgj6

FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 Use of Unsalted MD5 for Password Storage

Priority LOW 35CWE-916Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00307 23rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
FrontAccountingFrontAccountingup to 2.4.20—No fix listedCNA
  • FrontAccounting VendorFrontAccounting Affected up to 2.4.20 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-80211
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hc7j-jf63-wgj6

References

Advisory 1

Other 2

  • TI-2026-29268 FrontAccounting < 2.4.20 Path Traversal RCE via attachment upload CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2007-04142 PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in config.php in FrontAccounting 1.12 Build 31… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-29271 FrontAccounting < 2.4.20 SQL Injection via get_gl_transactions() CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.2
  • TI-2026-29270 FrontAccounting < 2.4.20 SQL Injection via reporting/rep710.php CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.2
  • TI-2026-29269 FrontAccounting < 2.4.20 SQL Injection via rep601.php CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
  • TI-2007-04929 Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in FrontAccounting (FA) 1.13, when… CVSS 2.0HIGH 9.3
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Sources

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