CVE-2023-40173

high

Description

Social media skeleton is an uncompleted/framework social media project implemented using a php, css ,javascript and html. Prior to version 1.0.5 Social media skeleton did not properly salt passwords leaving user passwords susceptible to cracking should an attacker gain access to hashed passwords. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.5 and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

References

https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-rfmv-7m7g-v628

https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/df31da44ffed3ea065cbbadc3c8052d0d489a2ef

https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/344d798e82d6cc39844962c6d3cb2560f5907848

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-18

Updated: 2023-08-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High