CVE-2026-80211FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 Use of Unsalted MD5 for Password Storage
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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.
- CVSS
- 5.9 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-916
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- VulnCheck
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Sep 24, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
FrontAccounting FrontAccounting frontaccounting:frontaccounting (from the name) | through 2.4.20 | CNA record |
References
- https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/FA.md#finding-2-unsalted-md5-password-hashing-in-frontaccountingthird-party-advisory
- https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FAproduct
- https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FA/blob/9464a3ffef03c139d9396e697bce9a0a9f131a72/includes/current_user.inc#L79technical-description
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frontaccounting-through-2.4.20-use-of-unsalted-md5-for-password-storagethird-party-advisory
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