Authentication mechanism absence or evasion - Azure

Description

The system has flaws over authentication mechanisms or had been configured with one that can be bypassed.

Impact

- Allow organizations to be vulnerable to stealthy brute-force attacks.
- Allow fraudulent attempts on access users accounts.

Recommendation

- Force users to register multiple authentication methods.
- Enable Azure Fraud alert to empower users to proactively report attempts of someone trying to use their account.
- Set account lockout thresholds notifications.

Threat

Anonymous attacker with credentials access from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ 60 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: P
Remediation level: O
Report confidence: C

Result

Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Score:

Base: 5.3
Temporal: 4.8

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: P

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:P
Score:

CVSS-BT: 5.5

Severity:

CVSS-BT: Medium

Requirements

Fixes

Azure

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