[+] Credits: hyp3rlinx 

[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org

[+] Source:  http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/COPPERMINE-WEAK-CRYPTO.txt



Vendor:
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coppermine-gallery.net



Product:
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Coppermine 1.5.40
downloads as cpg1.5.40.zip


Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written
in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.



Vulnerability Type:
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Weak Crypto 



Vulnerability Details:
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Coppermine stores users passwords in using weak MD5 hash function without any salt.

Using weak cryptographic one-way hash functions like MD5 without using salt for storing user passwords allows attackers
that gain access to this data ability to conduct password cracking attacks using pre-computed dictionaries, e.g. rainbow tables.
if their local machine is compromised and attackers gain access to the MD5 hashed passwords.

e.g.

e99a18c428cb38d5f260853678922e03 MD5 : abc123 


In register.php line 591 we find following md5 one way hash function applied to users password with no salt whatsoever, then stored in DB. 

$encpassword = md5($password);

   

$user_language = $CONFIG['lang'];


$sql = "INSERT INTO {$CONFIG['TABLE_USERS']} (user_regdate, user_active, user_actkey, user_name, user_password, user_email, user_profile1, user_profile2, user_profile3, user_profile4, user_profile5, user_profile6, user_language) VALUES (NOW(), '$active', '$act_key', '$user_name', '$encpassword', '$email', '$profile1', '$profile2', '$profile3', '$profile4', '$profile5', '$profile6', '$user_language')";
$result = cpg_db_query($sql);


Disclosure Date:
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Feb 26, 2016 : Public Disclosure


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