CVE-2026-45413 MaxKB: Unsalted MD5 Password Hashing
Attackers can crack user passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes, leading to credential theft and account takeover in MaxKB.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-45413?
CVE-2026-45413 is a medium-severity vulnerability in 1Panel-dev MaxKB, published on 26 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-328
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-45413?
How do I fix CVE-2026-45413?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-45413 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-45413 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-45413 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2m4c-mcq5-q8xq.