CVE-2008-1883: Blackboard Academic Suite

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The server in Blackboard Academic Suite 7.x stores MD5 password hashes that are provided directly by clients, which makes it easier for remote attackers to access accounts via a modified client that skips the javascript/md5.js hash calculation, and instead sends an arbitrary MD5 string.

Affected products

• Blackboard Blackboard Academic Suite: up to and including 7

Published 2008-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.