VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-20138

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.83%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-12-30
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

The HTTP Authentication library before 2019-12-27 for Nim has weak password hashing because the default algorithm for libsodium's crypto_pwhash_str is not used.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
  • CWE-916: Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

Primary references