MaxKB: Unsalted MD5 Password Hashing_CVE-2026-45413

6.9 / 10

MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.9.1, user passwords are stored using unsalted MD5 hashes, making them trivially crackable via rainbow tables or GPU-accelerated brute force (hashcat). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.1.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-45413

Source GitHub_M

Published May 26, 2026 at 20:12

Affected Product

Vendor 1Panel-dev

Product MaxKB

Version < 2.9.1

Affected Versions 1Panel-dev MaxKB < 2.9.1

CWE Classification

CWE-328

References

github.com /1Panel-dev/MaxKB/security/advisories/GHSA-2m4c-mcq5-q8xq

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