Medium
admin3 through 3.0.0 Weak Password Hashing via Single-Round MD5
Type: advisorySources: OSV
admin3 through 3.0.0 stores account passwords using single-round MD5 with only the username as salt and no key derivation function. Attackers with database access can recover plaintext passwords through offline dictionary or brute-force attacks due to negligible computational effort.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-92921
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 04:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
admin3 through 3.0.0 Weak Password Hashing via Single-Round MD5
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 17 Sept 2026, 12:33 UTC
admin3 through 3.0.0 stores account passwords using single-round MD5 with only the username as salt and no key derivation function. Attackers with database access can recover plaintext passwords through offline dictionary or brute-force attacks due to negligible computational effort.
osv:CVE-2026-92921
Complete source record
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"https://github.com/LinYuanyi1/cve-request-poc/blob/master/admin3/C08_md5_credential_hashing.py"
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