CVE-2009-4269

CVE-2009-4269 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The password hash generation algorithm in the BUILTIN authentication functionality for Apache Derby before 10.6.1.0 performs a transformation that reduces the size of the set of inputs to SHA-1, which produces a small search space that makes it easier for local and possibly remote attackers to crack passwords by generating hash collisions, related to password substitution.

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