🛡️ CVE-2024-40761
🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-326 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.3.5. Using the MD5 value of a user's email to access Gravatar is insecure and can lead to the leakage of user email. The official recommendation is to use SHA256 instead. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.4.0, which fixes the issue.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-326
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-25
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2025-07-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
answer — 1.3.5
github.com/apache/incubator-answer — —

References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/2
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/5
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/6
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/7
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/8
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/26/1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/26/3
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/26/4
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/27/4
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/27/5
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/27/8

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