CVE-2021-21253CWE-759

Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt in OnlineVotingSystem

Medium · published January 21, 2021

CVSS v3.1
5.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00745 · 54.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-759 · Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt
Published
2021-01-21T14:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 JAN 14:20Z
    Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt in OnlineVotingSystem
    cvelistv5