Vulnerability · Published Aug 18, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-40173Unsalted passwords in fobybus/social-media-skeleton

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in social-media-skeleton from fobybus. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 52% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 48.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
fobybus	social-media-skeleton	< 1.0.5

Weakness: CWE-522 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-rfmv-7m7g-v628 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/344d798e82d6cc39844962c6d3cb2560f5907848 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/df31da44ffed3ea065cbbadc3c8052d0d489a2ef x_refsource_MISC