Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2021 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2021-21253Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt in OnlineVotingSystem
Medium 5.8
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in OnlineVotingSystem from dbijaya. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 55% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| dbijaya | OnlineVotingSystem | < 1.1.2 |
Weakness: CWE-759 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N