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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2021-21253 Detail

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/dbijaya/OnlineVotingSystem/commit/0181cb0272857696c8eb3e44fcf6cb014ff90f09 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/dbijaya/OnlineVotingSystem/commit/0181cb0272857696c8eb3e44fcf6cb014ff90f09 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/dbijaya/OnlineVotingSystem/security/advisories/GHSA-wwg8-372v-v332 Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/dbijaya/OnlineVotingSystem/security/advisories/GHSA-wwg8-372v-v332 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-759 Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-21253
NVD Published Date:
01/21/2021
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
GitHub, Inc.