Insecure Password Hashing in heinekingmedia StashCat

CVE-2017-11131 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue was discovered in heinekingmedia StashCat through 1.7.5 for Android, through 0.0.80w for Web, and through 0.0.86 for Desktop. For authentication, the user password is hashed directly with SHA-512 without a salt or another key-derivation mechanism to enable a secure secret for authentication. Moreover, only the first 32 bytes of the hash are used. This allows for easy dictionary and rainbow-table attacks if an attacker has access to the password hash.

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