CVE-2021-21253

 

Published at: - 21-01-2021 04:15

Last modified: - 24-10-2022 10:58

Total changes: - 6

Description

OnlineVotingSystem is an open source project hosted on GitHub. OnlineVotingSystem before version 1.1.2 hashes user passwords without a salt, which is vulnerable to dictionary attacks. Therefore there is a threat of security breach in the voting system. Without a salt, it is much easier for attackers to pre-compute the hash value using dictionary attack techniques such as rainbow tables to crack passwords. This problem is fixed and published in version 1.1.2. A long randomly generated salt is added to the password hash function to better protect passwords stored in the voting system.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• https://github.com/dbijaya/OnlineVotingSystem/commit/0181cb0272857696c8eb3e44fcf6cb014ff90f09
• https://github.com/dbijaya/OnlineVotingSystem/security/advisories/GHSA-wwg8-372v-v332

 

Keywords

NVD

 

CVE-2021-21253

 

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Common vulnerabilities & exposures

 

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Common vulnerability scoring system

 

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