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.

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact None

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

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Vendor Product Default status Versions
1Panel-dev MaxKB affected
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< 2.9.1 affected —

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Tue, 26 May 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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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'}

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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

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