CVE-2025-48931
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe TeleMessage service through 2025-05-05 relies on MD5 for password hashing, which opens up various attack possibilities (including rainbow tables) with low computational effort.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe TeleMessage service uses MD5 for password hashing, which is cryptographically weak and vulnerable to rainbow table attacks due to MD5's fast computation speed and known collision vulnerabilities.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 2025-05-05CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify the installed Smarsh Telemessage versionCheck the product version through its administrative UI, CLI tool, or version configuration file. Common locations include: help/about menu, version.txt file, or config/version property.Affected if The installed version is dated 2025-05-05 or earlier (date-based versioning).
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Locate password hashing configurationSearch for configuration files related to authentication, user management, or password settings. Look for properties or settings that specify the hashing algorithm (e.g., 'hashAlgorithm', 'passwordHash', 'encryption').Affected if Configuration explicitly specifies MD5, or shows no algorithm (defaulting to MD5) for password hashing.
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Examine stored password hash formatAccess the user database or password storage (e.g., users table) and inspect the format of stored password hashes. MD5 produces a 32-character hexadecimal string.Affected if Password hashes are 32-character hex strings consistent with MD5 format, or the schema shows 'MD5' as the hash algorithm.
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Review authentication module configurationInspect the authentication or security configuration files for the password encoding/hashing method used during login verification.Affected if The authentication module is configured to verify passwords using MD5.
You are affected if the Smarsh Telemessage version is dated 2025-05-05 or earlier AND the system is configured to use MD5 for password hashing (detectable via version check, config files, or stored hash format).
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataReplace MD5 with a modern password hashing algorithm (e.g., bcrypt, scrypt, or Argon2) with appropriate work factors, and migrate existing password hashes.
- Consultation4.0 h
- Implementation8.0 h
- Testing4.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-48931 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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