CVE-2024-40761

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.007 · 55 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.75% (55th) EPSS

CVSS 5.3 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.3.5. Using the MD5 value of a user's email to access Gravatar is insecure and can lead to the leakage of user email. The official recommendation is to use SHA256 instead. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.4.0, which fixes the issue.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondaryexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-326USCWE-326US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Answer≤ 0 ≤1.3.5enisa_euvdEU
apache answer≤ 1.3.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:answer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/apache/incubator-answer< 1.4.0osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/apache/incubator-answer

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-48cr-j2cx-mcr8Apache Answer: Avatar URL leaked user email addresses2024-09-25ghsa · osvUS
Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.3.5. Using the MD5 value of a user's email to access Gravatar is insecure and can lead to the leakage of user email. The official recommendation is to use SHA256 instead. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.4.0, which fixes the issue.
GO-2024-3158Apache Answer: Avatar URL leaked user email addresses in github.com/apache/incubator-answer2024-09-26vendor · osvUS
Apache Answer: Avatar URL leaked user email addresses in github.com/apache/incubator-answer

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2024-09-25modified 2026-06-17

references (15)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2024-40761/cnnvd
https://lists.apache.org/thread/mmrhsfy16qwrw0pkv0p9kj40vy3sg08x cnnvd
https://lists.apache.org/thread/mmrhsfy16qwrw0pkv0p9kj40vy3sg08x enisa_euvd
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/2Mailing ListThird Party Advisorynvd
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/5Mailing ListThird Party Advisorynvd
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/6Mailing ListThird Party Advisorynvd
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/7Mailing ListThird Party Advisorynvd
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/25/8Mailing ListThird Party Advisorynvd

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