Stored-password cracking via unsalted MD5 hashing
Published Feb 18, 2022 · Updated Apr 16, 2025
Weak password hashing in affected Airspan Networks Mimosa products allows remote authenticated users to recover stored passwords. The password-storage path applies MD5 directly without a unique salt, enabling efficient offline guessing and reuse of work across identical passwords. Exploitation requires possession of stored hashes; successful cracking discloses account passwords but does not directly alter data or interrupt service.
Summary
What happened
Weak password hashing in affected Airspan Networks Mimosa products allows remote authenticated users to recover stored passwords. The password-storage path applies MD5 directly without a unique salt, enabling efficient offline guessing and reuse of work across identical passwords. Exploitation requires possession of stored hashes; successful cracking discloses account passwords but does not directly alter data or interrupt service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-21800
- Published
- Feb 18, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 16, 2025
- Vendor
- Airspan Networks
- Product
- Mimosa PTP C-series
- Classifications
- CWE-327, T1110.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 18, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 16, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <v2.8.6.1
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