Nama: Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format

The storage of passwords in a recoverable format makes them subject to password reuse attacks by malicious users. In fact, it should be noted that recoverable encrypted passwords provide no significant benefit over plaintext passwords since they are subject not only to reuse by malicious attackers but also by malicious insiders. If a system administrator can recover a password directly, or use a brute force search on the available information, the administrator can use the password on other accounts.

Informasi Umum

Mode Pengenalan

Architecture and Design : COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.

Platform yang Berlaku

Bahasa

Kelas: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Konsekuensi Umum

Cakupan	Dampak	Kemungkinan
Confidentiality Access Control	Gain Privileges or Assume Identity Catatan: User's passwords may be revealed.
Access Control	Gain Privileges or Assume Identity Catatan: Revealed passwords may be reused elsewhere to impersonate the users in question.

Contoh yang Diamati

Referensi	Deskripsi
CVE-2022-30018	A messaging platform serializes all elements of User/Group objects, making private information available to adversaries

Mitigasi yang Memungkinkan

Phases : Architecture and Design
Use strong, non-reversible encryption to protect stored passwords.

Metode Deteksi

Automated Static Analysis

Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)
Efektivitas : High

Catatan Pemetaan Kerentanan

Justifikasi : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Komentar : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Pola Serangan Terkait

CAPEC ID	Nama Pola Serangan
CAPEC-49	Password Brute Forcing An adversary tries every possible value for a password until they succeed. A brute force attack, if feasible computationally, will always be successful because it will essentially go through all possible passwords given the alphabet used (lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers, symbols, etc.) and the maximum length of the password.

Catatan

The meaning of this entry needs to be investigated more closely, especially with respect to what is meant by "recoverable."

Referensi

REF-18

The CLASP Application Security Process
Secure Software, Inc..
https://cwe.mitre.org/documents/sources/TheCLASPApplicationSecurityProcess.pdf

Pengajuan

Nama	Organisasi	Tanggal	Tanggal rilis	Version
CLASP		2006-07-19 +00:00	2006-07-19 +00:00	Draft 3

Modifikasi

Nama	Organisasi	Tanggal	Komentar
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2008-09-08 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings, Weakness_Ordinalities
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2008-10-14 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples, Description, Maintenance_Notes, Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2010-02-16 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-06-01 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Demonstrative_Examples
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-05-11 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-10-30 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2014-06-23 +00:00	updated Description, Other_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2014-07-30 +00:00	updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2017-11-08 +00:00	updated Applicable_Platforms, Causal_Nature, Demonstrative_Examples, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-02-24 +00:00	updated References, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2021-03-15 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples, Maintenance_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2021-10-28 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-04-27 +00:00	updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-06-29 +00:00	updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-10-26 +00:00	updated Observed_Examples

Detail CWE-257

CWE-257