Account Takeover

Description

By exploiting one or several application vulnerabilities it is possible to take control over a user account and perform action on his behalf

Impact

- Affect the traceability and non-repudiation of the user's actions.
- Deny the access of a legitimate user to its own account
- Obtain potentially confidential information from the user account

Recommendation

Define account recovery mechanisms, validating that the requester is the account owner.

Threat

Authenticated attacker from the Internet

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ 100 minutes.

Score

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

Base

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

Temporal

Exploit code maturity: H
Remediation level: U
Report confidence: C

Result

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

Base: 5.0
Temporal: 5.0

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

Threat 4.0

Exploit maturity: A

Result 4.0

Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A
Score:

CVSS-BT: 2.3

Severity:

CVSS-BT: Low

Requirements

Fixes

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