CVE-2012-2565 — Bloxx Web Filtering before 5.0.14 does not use a salt during calculation of a password hash, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords via a rainbow-table approach

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Bloxx Web Filtering before 5.0.14 does not use a salt during calculation of a password hash, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords via a rainbow-table approach

Published Jun 9, 2012

5.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.19%

Description

Bloxx Web Filtering before 5.0.14 does not use a salt during calculation of a password hash, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords via a rainbow-table approach.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.19% 0.01190

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01190

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.19% (0.01190)	66.83th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.19% (0.01190)	63.79th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 17, 2025	1.76% (0.01760)	81.93th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.48% (0.00476)	62.86th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.14% (0.00136)	50.58th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 20, 2024	0.14% (0.00136)	49.20th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.14% (0.00136)	47.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00954)	36.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 2, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	34.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	32.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	16.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/722963
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8R9LBY
x_refsource_CONFIRMUS Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53715
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/722963		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8R9LBY		x_refsource_CONFIRMUS Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53715		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner certcc

Published Jun 9, 2012

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 9, 2012

Link CVE-2012-2565

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-2565

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2012-2565