Re: Web Application Vulnerability Categorization

Seth Art <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Apr 2014 14:27:02 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Message-ID <CAOzeT82bFhuoVBHUTBtDoeOu1om+HEbMKLEyszPQJYd-p_hyOw@mail.gmail.com>
m0nk,

This CWE fits pretty closely: CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery
Mechanism for Forgotten Password -
http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/640.html

-Seth

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Seth Art <[email protected]> wrote:
> m0nk,
>
> This CWE fits pretty closely: CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for
> Forgotten Password - http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/640.html
>
> -Seth
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:09 PM, m@d m0nk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Team,
>>
>> Greetings!!!.
>>
>> I have a web app with a password recovery option. There is a secret
>> question and if the user enters the correct answer to the secret
>> question, the username and password is provided to the user.
>>
>> If the password recover page / module allows multiple tries
>> (brute-force and no CAPTCHA or similar mechanism), can we categorize
>> this vulnerability under "Broken Authentication and Session
>> Management" or does this fall under any other Vulnerability Category /
>> OWASP Top 10?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> ch33rs,
>>
>> --
>>
>> __| madm0nk |__
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