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.
History

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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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-26T20:12:34.805Z

Reserved: 2026-05-12T01:48:40.452Z

Link: CVE-2026-45413

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-26T21:16:40.233

Modified: 2026-05-26T21:16:40.233

Link: CVE-2026-45413

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Updated: 2026-05-26T22:00:15Z