Medium severity · published May 26, 2026
CVE-2026-45413
MaxKB: Unsalted MD5 Password Hashing
6.9
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.9.1, user passwords are stored using unsalted MD5 hashes, making them trivially crackable via rainbow tables or GPU-accelerated brute force (hashcat). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.1.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 0% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
MaxKB · 1Panel-dev
< 2.9.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45413
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45413
github.com
https://github.com/1Panel-dev/MaxKB/security/advisories/GHSA-2m4c-mcq5-q8xq
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