Name: CVE-2019-20138: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2019-12-30T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2019-20138, CWE-327, CWE-916, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00171

The HTTP Authentication library before 2019-12-27 for Nim has weak password hashing because the default algorithm for libsodium's crypto_pwhash_str is not used.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

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