Tên: 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.

Thông tin chung

Các cách xuất hiện

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

Nền tảng áp dụng

Ngôn ngữ

Lớp: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Hậu quả phổ biến

Phạm vi	Tác động	Khả năng xảy ra
Confidentiality Access Control	Gain Privileges or Assume Identity Ghi chú: User's passwords may be revealed.
Access Control	Gain Privileges or Assume Identity Ghi chú: Revealed passwords may be reused elsewhere to impersonate the users in question.

Ví dụ đã quan sát

Tài liệu tham khảo	Mô tả
CVE-2022-30018	A messaging platform serializes all elements of User/Group objects, making private information available to adversaries

Các biện pháp giảm thiểu tiềm năng

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

Phương pháp phát hiện

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.)
Hiệu quả : High

Ghi chú ánh xạ lỗ hổng

Lý do : 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.
Bình luận : 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.

Mẫu tấn công liên quan

ID CAPEC	Tên mẫu tấn công
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.

Ghi chú

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

Tài liệu tham khảo

REF-18

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

Gửi

Tên	Tổ chức	Ngày	Ngày phát hành	Version
CLASP		2006-07-19 +00:00	2006-07-19 +00:00	Draft 3

Sửa đổi

Tên	Tổ chức	Ngày	Bình luận
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

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