Vulnerability · Published Sep 3, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-56608
Medium 4.2
In plain English
A medium-severity authentication bypass by spoofing in the affected software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 26% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
The SourceCodester Android application "Corona Virus Tracker App India" 1.0 uses MD5 for digest authentication in `OkHttpClientWrapper.java`. The `handleDigest()` function employs `MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5")` to hash credentials. MD5 is a broken cryptographic algorithm known to allow hash collisions. This makes the authentication mechanism vulnerable to replay, spoofing, or brute-force attacks, potentially leading to unauthorized access. The vulnerability corresponds to CWE-327 and aligns with OWASP M5: Insufficient Cryptography and MASVS MSTG-CRYPTO-4.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-290 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.sourcecodester.com/android/14292/android-corona-virus-tracker-app-india-using-b4a.html
- https://github.com/MobSF/owasp-mstg/blob/master/Document/0x04g-Testing-Cryptography.md#identifying-insecure-andor-deprecated-cryptographic-algorithms-mstg-crypto-4
- https://github.com/anonaninda/Aninda-security-advisories/blob/main/CVE-2025-56608.md