CVE-2026-45413CWE-328

MaxKB: Unsalted MD5 Password Hashing

Medium · published May 26, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.9 · MEDIUM
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
EPSS
0.00112 · 1.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-328 · Use of Weak Hash
Published
2026-05-26T20:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 MAY 20:12Z
    MaxKB: Unsalted MD5 Password Hashing
    cvelistv5