Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-21253 - Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in Onlinevotingsystem Project Onlinevotingsystem 1.1.1

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-916 - Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

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