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CVE-2021-35965
Learningdigital.com, Inc. Orca HCM - Hard-code password
Critical9.8EPSS 2.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- twcert
Description
The Orca HCM digital learning platform uses a weak factory default administrator password, which is hard-coded in the source code of the webpage in plain text, thus remote attackers can obtain administrator’s privilege without logging in.
Timeline
ID reserved
By twcert
- 19 days later
· 19 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| twcertCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Learningdigital.com, Inc. · Orca HCM
- affected unspecified – ≤ 10.0
What to do
Solution: Update Orca HCM to version 10.9
References (2)
- https://www.chtsecurity.com/news/ba7b3ae7-14f3-4970-b3f6-4d97d8c7ea25 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-4925-86733-1.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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