Cryptographic Issues Affecting bcrypt package, versions <5.0.0


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-BCRYPT-575033
  • published 1 Jul 2020
  • disclosed 13 Jan 2020
  • credit Felix

Introduced: 13 Jan 2020

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-310 Open this link in a new tab
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade bcrypt to version 5.0.0 or higher.

Overview

bcrypt is an A library to help you hash passwords.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues. When hashing a password containing an ASCII NUL character, that character acts as the string terminator. Any following characters are ignored.

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