CVE-2018-15717
Open Dental before version 18.4 stores user passwords as base64 encoded MD5 hashes.
Open Dental before version 18.4 stores user passwords as base64 encoded MD5 hashes.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Open Dental before version 18.4 stores user passwords as base64 encoded MD5 hashes.
- Record
CVE-2018-15717- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-916, CWE-522
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Open Dental before version 18.4 stores user passwords as base64 encoded MD5 hashes.
- Record
CVE-2018-15717- Weakness
- CWE-916
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2018-7587 No score
Open Dental before version 18.4 stores user passwords as base64 encoded MD5 hashes.
- Record
EUVD-2018-7587- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-vxh8-h4fx-wwhc
Open Dental before version 18.4 stores user passwords as base64 encoded MD5 hashes.
Open Dental before version 18.4 stores user passwords as base64 encoded MD5 hashes.
- Record
GHSA-vxh8-h4fx-wwhc- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-522
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2018-15717 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) in Open Dental Dental, published December 12, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.53%, the 44th percentile. No source names a fixed version.