Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 21, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024
Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt in OnlineVotingSystem
CVE-2021-21253
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
1- Range: < 1.1.2
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- github.com/dbijaya/OnlineVotingSystem/commit/0181cb0272857696c8eb3e44fcf6cb014ff90f09mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/dbijaya/OnlineVotingSystem/security/advisories/GHSA-wwg8-372v-v332mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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