Category: OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A2 - Broken Authentication and Session Management
Obsolete
Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the A2 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2013.
Membership
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CWE-256 | Plaintext Storage of a Password | The product stores a password in plaintext within resources such as memory or files. |
| CWE-287 | Improper Authentication | When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. |
| CWE-311 | Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data | The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission. |
| CWE-384 | Session Fixation | Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions. |
| CWE-522 | Insufficiently Protected Credentials | The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. |
| CWE-523 | Unprotected Transport of Credentials | Login pages do not use adequate measures to protect the user name and password while they are in transit from the client to the server. |
| CWE-613 | Insufficient Session Expiration | According to WASC, "Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization." |
| CWE-620 | Unverified Password Change | When setting a new password for a user, the product does not require knowledge of the original password, or using another form of authentication. |
| CWE-640 | Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password | The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. |
| CWE-928 | Weaknesses in OWASP Top Ten (2013) | CWE nodes in this view (graph) are associated with the OWASP Top Ten, as released in 2013. This view is considered obsolete as a newer version of the OWASP Top Ten is available. |
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