A security engineer discovers that an internal web server is using MD5 to store user passwords. What is the PRIMARY vulnerability with this configuration?
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AMD5 is vulnerable to collision attacks
BMD5 is too slow for modern systems
CMD5 uses weak asymmetric keys
DMD5 is a symmetric encryption algorithm
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