Description

The system does not have appropriate protection mechanisms against automated attacks designed to guess credentials.

Impact

Obtain the passwords of the application users.

Recommendation

Implement a control to avoid this type of attacks and to ensure that access is not made by a robot. E.g. Captcha, failed attempts blockout, etc.

Threat

Anonymous attacker from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ 300 minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: L
• Privileges required: N
• User interaction: N
• Scope: U
• Confidentiality: L
• Integrity: N
• Availability: N

Temporal

• Exploit code maturity: X
• Remediation level: X
• Report confidence: X

Result

• Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:X/RL:X/RC:X
• Score:
• Base: 5.3
• Temporal: 5.3
• Severity:
• Base: Medium
• Temporal: Medium

Score 4.0

Default score using CVSS 4.0. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base 4.0

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: L
• Attack Requirements: N
• Privileges required: N
• User interaction: N
• Confidentiality (VC): L
• Integrity (VI): N
• Availability (VA): N
• Confidentiality (SC): N
• Integrity (SI): N
• Availability (SA): N

Threat 4.0

• Exploit maturity: X

Result 4.0

• Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X
• Score:
• CVSS-BT: 6.9
• Severity:
• CVSS-BT: Medium

Requirements

• 237.Ascertain human interaction
• 327.Set a rate limit

Fixes

• Java
• Elixir
• C-Sharp
• Go
• Ruby
• Dart
• Scala
• Python
• TypeScript

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