Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in Beego - CVE-2024-55885

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Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in Beego - CVE-2024-55885

Published: June 3, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU110091
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-55885
CWE-ID: CWE-327
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to modify data on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to beego use MD5 as a hashing algorithm and MD5 is no longer considered secure against well-funded opponents due to its vulnerability to collision attacks. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to modify data on the system.


Affected software

Beego
IBM Fusion HCI
IBM Cloud Pak System

How to mitigate CVE-2024-55885

Install updates from vendor's website.

Beego - update to 2.3.4
IBM Fusion HCI - update to 2.10.0
IBM Cloud Pak System - update to 2.3.6.0

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