Misuse of SHA256 to create an encryption key

published 2024-12-15 22 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-48557

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits: 0; none known

Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in percona percona-toolkit allows Encryption Brute Forcing.This issue affects percona-toolkit: 3.6.0.

Patch / fix

distros 1

percona-toolkit Debian 14 3.7.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-7701

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 22 mo ago (2024-12-16)

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	4.0	5.1	CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA	4.0	5.1	CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

percona percona-toolkit

Classification

Weakness

CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

References

github.com /percona/percona-toolkit/blob/aa1ac0e6889168fddf73c3a72d447e9ea0c0c63b/src/go/pt-secure-collect/encrypt.go#L17
product

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-7701
NVD CVE-2024-7701

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Summary