Offline password cracking via unsalted database hashes
Published Aug 6, 2025 · Updated Aug 6, 2025
Insecure password storage in 4C Strategies Exonaut 21.6 allows attackers with database-hash access to accelerate offline cracking. Exonaut stores password hashes in its database without a unique salt, allowing identical passwords to produce reusable comparison targets across accounts. Exploitation requires access to the stored hashes; the documented consequence is reduced password confidentiality, not data modification or service interruption.
Summary
What happened
Insecure password storage in 4C Strategies Exonaut 21.6 allows attackers with database-hash access to accelerate offline cracking. Exonaut stores password hashes in its database without a unique salt, allowing identical passwords to produce reusable comparison targets across accounts. Exploitation requires access to the stored hashes; the documented consequence is reduced password confidentiality, not data modification or service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-46660
- Published
- Aug 6, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2025
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- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-922
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
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- Aug 6, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 6, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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