CVE-2020-10538: Epikur

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Epikur before 20.1.1. It stores the secret passwords of the users as MD5 hashes in the database. MD5 can be brute-forced efficiently and should not be used for such purposes. Additionally, since no salt is used, rainbow tables can speed up the attack.

Affected products

• Epikur Epikur: before 20.1.1 (fixed in 20.1.1)

Published 2021-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.