In cryptography, a collision attack on a cryptographic hash tries to find two inputs producing the same hash value, i.e. a hash collision. In contrast to a preimage attack (tries to find a message that has a specific hash value.) the hash value is not specified.
There are roughly two types of collision attacks.The first is a Collision attack where it finds two different messages that produce the same hash value. Second one is a Chosen-prefix collision attack: Much like symmetric-key ciphers are vulnerable to brute force attacks, every cryptographic hash function is inherently vulnerable to collisions using a birthday attack. Due to the birthday problem, these attacks are much faster than a brute force would be. A hash of n bits can be broken in 2n/2 time (evaluations of the hash function).
Using a Cisco ASA that utilizes hash cryptography for verification of file integrity is susceptible to a brute force or dictionary attack. If the ASA is compromised it opens up the entire network to be compromised. Since the ASA by default signs it own certificates for clients and systems, it would allow a hacker to have complete access to the network. The system is still usable, however for it to be better secured a better encryption protocol needs to be used such as SHA2.
There are plenty of tools and programs available on the open internet for hacking the MD5 hash algorithms. With a little bit of cost this can be rectified by using a different hashing protocol. When you look at the cost of replacing a device, getting licensed to use a different algorithm is much cheaper. MD5 was broken years ago and there are people who look for these vulnerabilities.
What this vulnerability is doing is creating a rogue CA certificate, creating an MD5 collision on your next work. According to Microsoft this threat is not a major issue will no reports of this attack being used. Form the rewind that I have doesn’t I did not see any tools that were used to create this attack.
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