Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-0591

Title: Solar Designer Crypt Blowfish Cryptographic Failures

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-0591.

CWE Category CWE-310
Published Date Feb 08, 2006
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 1.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.39%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-0591: The crypt_gensalt functions for BSDI-style extended DES-based and FreeBSD-sytle MD5-based password hashes in crypt_blowfish 0.4.7 and earlier do not evenly and randomly distribute salts, which makes it easier for attackers to guess passwords from a stolen password file due to the increased number of collisions.

Impacted Vendors

S
solar_designer 1

Reference Links

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060602-01-U.asc http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/glibc/crypt_blowfish/crypt_gensalt.c?only_with_tag=CRYPT_BLOWFISH_1_0 http://secunia.com/advisories/18772 http://secunia.com/advisories/20232 http://secunia.com/advisories/20653 http://secunia.com/advisories/20782 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-113.htm http://www.osvdb.org/23005 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0526.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424260/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0477 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24590 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11502 ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060602-01-U.asc http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/glibc/crypt_blowfish/crypt_gensalt.c?only_with_tag=CRYPT_BLOWFISH_1_0 http://secunia.com/advisories/18772 http://secunia.com/advisories/20232 http://secunia.com/advisories/20653 http://secunia.com/advisories/20782 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-113.htm http://www.osvdb.org/23005 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0526.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424260/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0477 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24590 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11502
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
1.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-0591 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.