CVE-2021-21253

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.007 · 55 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.74% (55th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.15.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-916USprimaryCWE-759US

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

dbijaya OnlineVotingSystem≤ < 1.1.2enisa_euvdEU
onlinevotingsystem project onlinevotingsystem< 1.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:onlinevotingsystem_project:onlinevotingsystem:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-01-21modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

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