# CVE-2025-48931: Weak cryptography in service

> The TeleMessage service uses weak MD5 password hashing, allowing attackers to easily recover passwords via rainbow tables and compromise user accounts.

- **Severity:** Low 3.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 May 2025
- **Updated:** 29 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pw38-3jfp-fw32

## What is CVE-2025-48931?

CVE-2025-48931 is a low-severity vulnerability in TeleMessage service, published on 28 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The TeleMessage service through 2025-05-05 relies on MD5 for password hashing, which opens up various attack possibilities (including rainbow tables) with low computational effort.

Weakness: CWE-328 (Use of Weak Hash)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-48931?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Smarsh Telemessage.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-48931?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-48931 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-48931 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48931 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in TeleMessage service

- [CVE-2025-48927](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48927/): TeleMessage TM SGNL Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default (medium 5.3, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-48928](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48928/): TeleMessage TM SGNL Exposure of Core Dump File to an Unauthorized Control Sphere (medium 4.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-47730](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-47730/): Hardcoded credentials in archiving backend (medium 4.8)
- [CVE-2025-48925](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48925/): Weak cryptography in service (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2025-48926](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48926/): Information disclosure in service (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-48931 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-48931 is a low-severity vulnerability in TeleMessage service, published on 28 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48931 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: TeleMessage service. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48931/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48931/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48931
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48931
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-48931

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48931/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.