--- title: "CVE-2026-80211\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-80211?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2026-80211 Publication date 27 August 2026 Last updated 2 September 2026 --- Ubuntu priority **Medium** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## Description FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 stores and verifies user passwords as unsalted MD5 digests. admin/users.php passes md5($\_POST['password']) to add\_user() and update\_user\_password(), admin/change\_current\_user\_password.php does the same when a user changes their own password, the forgotten-password path in includes/current\_user.inc hashes the newly generated password the same way, and authentication calls get\_user\_auth($loginname, md5($password)). The codebase applies no per-password salt and contains no call to password\_hash(), password\_verify() or any other adaptive hash, so identical passwords yield identical digests and an attacker who obtains the user table can recover plaintext passwords with precomputed lookup tables or high-rate GPU cracking. ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-80211) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80211) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2026-80211) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-80211) ### Other references * * * * *