Tên: Reflection Attack in an Authentication Protocol

Simple authentication protocols are subject to reflection attacks if a malicious user can use the target machine to impersonate a trusted user.

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Các cách xuất hiện

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

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Ngôn ngữ

Lớp: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Hậu quả phổ biến

Phạm vi	Tác động	Khả năng xảy ra
Access Control	Gain Privileges or Assume Identity Ghi chú: The primary result of reflection attacks is successful authentication with a target machine -- as an impersonated user.

Ví dụ đã quan sát

Tài liệu tham khảo	Mô tả
CVE-2024-11022	web server includes the nonce in its challenge/response mechanism, allowing a replay attack
CVE-2005-3435	product authentication succeeds if user-provided MD5 hash matches the hash in its database; this can be subjected to replay attacks.

Các biện pháp giảm thiểu tiềm năng

Phases : Architecture and Design
Use different keys for the initiator and responder or of a different type of challenge for the initiator and responder.
Phases : Architecture and Design
Let the initiator prove its identity before proceeding.

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-90	Reflection Attack in Authentication Protocol An adversary can abuse an authentication protocol susceptible to reflection attack in order to defeat it. Doing so allows the adversary illegitimate access to the target system, without possessing the requisite credentials. Reflection attacks are of great concern to authentication protocols that rely on a challenge-handshake or similar mechanism. An adversary can impersonate a legitimate user and can gain illegitimate access to the system by successfully mounting a reflection attack during authentication.

Ghi chú

By emphasizing a "Reflection Attack", this entry is more attack-focused and could be better expressed in ways that reflect the underlying weakness(es) that enable the attack to succeed.
The term "reflection" is used in multiple ways within CWE and the community, so its usage should be reviewed.

Tài liệu tham khảo

REF-18

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

REF-62

The Art of Software Security Assessment
Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh.

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
Eric Dalci	Cigital	2008-07-01 +00:00	updated Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2008-09-08 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Description, Maintenance_Notes, Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-06-01 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-05-11 +00:00	updated Observed_Examples, References, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2014-07-30 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2017-11-08 +00:00	updated Applicable_Platforms, Demonstrative_Examples, 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 Description, Other_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2022-10-13 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-01-31 +00:00	updated Type
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-04-27 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-06-29 +00:00	updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2025-12-11 +00:00	updated Weakness_Ordinalities
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2026-04-30 +00:00	updated Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2026-10-28 +00:00	updated Research_Gaps

Chi tiết CWE-301

CWE-301