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    CVE-2024-40761

    Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.3.5. Using the MD5 value of a user's email to access Gravatar is insecure and can lead to the leakage of user email. The official recommendation is to use SHA256 instead. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.4.0, which fixes the issue.

    Published:Sep 25, 2024
    Last Modified:Jul 10, 2025
    EPS:Sep 25, 2024
    EPSS Score:0.01381
    CVSS Score:5.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Answer

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-112 Brute Force
    CAPEC-192 Protocol Analysis
    CAPEC-20 Encryption Brute Forcing

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