CVE-2026-45413

MaxKB: Unsalted MD5 Password Hashing

Published May 26, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 6.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.9.1, user passwords are stored using unsalted MD5 hashes, making them trivially crackable via rainbow tables or GPU-accelerated brute force (hashcat). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.1.

Remediation

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Description MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.9.1, user passwords are stored using unsalted MD5 hashes, making them trivially crackable via rainbow tables or GPU-accelerated brute force (hashcat). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.1.
Title MaxKB: Unsalted MD5 Password Hashing
Weaknesses CWE-328
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
May 27, 2026, 1:22 PM
Reserved
May 12, 2026, 1:48 AM
Status
Deferred
Published
May 26, 2026, 9:16 PM
Modified
Jul 24, 2026, 11:10 AM