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CVE-2014-3945

The Authentication component in TYPO3 before 6.2, when salting for password hashing is disabled, does not require knowledge of the cleartext password if the password hash is known, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to the backend by leveraging knowledge of a password hash.

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Severity

N/A

EPSS

Probability of exploitation (next 30 days): 0.0020 (0.2%)
Percentile: 41.5%
EPSS: 2026-05-06

Affects

typo3:typo3

Technical description

The Authentication component in TYPO3 before 6.2, when salting for password hashing is disabled, does not require knowledge of the cleartext password if the password hash is known, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to the backend by leveraging knowledge of a password hash.

Published: 6/3/2014, 2:55:11 PM
Last modified: 5/6/2026, 10:30:45 PM

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