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CWE-287: Improper Authentication

Class Draft Mapping discouraged

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
  1. Architecture and Design

    Use an authentication framework or library such as the OWASP ESAPI Authentication feature.

Source: MITRE CWE-287

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  • High 7.3

    D-Link DHP-W310AV authentication spoofing

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  • Medium 5.3

    Apache Cassandra: unrestricted deserialization of JMX authentication credentials

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  • Critical 9.8
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  • Critical 9.8
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  • Medium 6.7

    LDAP Authentication Sever Pass-back attack

    If LDAP settings are accessed, authentication could be redirected to another server, potentially exposing credentials. This requires admin access and an active LDAP setup.

  • High 7.5

    macrozheng mall-tiny 1.0.1 suffers from Insecure Permissions. The application's JWT signing keys are hardcoded and do n…

  • Critical 9.8

    Inadequate access control in Beta10

    It has been found that the Beta10 software does not provide for proper authorisation control in multiple areas of the application. This deficiency could allow a malicious actor, without authentication, to access private areas and/or areas intended for other r…

  • Medium 5.4

    Keycloak-ldap-federation: authentication bypass due to missing ldap bind after password reset in keycloak

    A flaw was found in Keycloak. When an Active Directory user resets their password, the system updates it without performing an LDAP bind to validate the new credentials against AD. This vulnerability allows users whose AD accounts are expired or disabled to r…

  • High 8.7

    OpenObserve Improper Authorization Allows Admin User to Remove Root User

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  • Medium 5.3

    Unauthenticated writes to the media repository allow planting of problematic content in Matrix Media Repo

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  • Critical 9.1

    Improper authentication on SAML SSO process allows user impersonation in sentry

    Sentry is a developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring tool. A critical vulnerability was discovered in the SAML SSO implementation of Sentry. It was reported to us via our private bug bounty program. The vulnerability allows an attacker to tak…

  • High 7.5

    CyberPower PowerPanel Business Unauthenticated Restart DoS

    A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in CyberPower PowerPanel Business (PPB) 4.11.0. An unauthenticated remote attacker can restart the ppbd.exe process via the PowerPanel Business Service Watchdog service listening on TCP port 2003. The attacker can repe…

  • Critical 9.8

    Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction <= 2.13.7 - Authentication Bypass via pms_payment_id

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  • Critical 9.9

    Improper Authentication in SAP NetWeaver ABAP Server and ABAP Platform

    SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP and ABAP Platform allows an authenticated attacker to obtain illegitimate access to the system by exploiting improper authentication checks, resulting in privilege escalation. On successful exploitation, this can resu…

  • Medium 5.3

    HCL MyXalytics is affected by broken authentication

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  • Medium 6.6

    A user with administrator privileges is able to retrieve authentication tokens

    A user with administrator privileges is able to retrieve authentication tokens

  • Medium 5.4

    Login Disable - Critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-073

    Improper Authentication vulnerability in Drupal Login Disable allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Login Disable: from 2.0.0 before 2.1.1.

  • High 8.2
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    An Improper Authentication vulnerability in the SSLVPN authentication mechanism allows a remote attacker to bypass auth…

    KEV Feb 18, 2025
  • Medium 4.3

    Instruction authentication bypass vulnerability in the Findnetwork module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulne…

  • Critical 9.8

    PayU CommercePro Plugin <= 3.8.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

    The PayU CommercePro Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.3. This is due to /wp-json/payu/v1/generate-user-token and /wp-json/payu/v1/get-shipping-cost REST API endpoints not properly veri…

  • High 7.5

    NiceGUI On Air authentication issue

    NiceGUI is an easy-to-use, Python-based UI framework. Prior to 2.9.1, authenticating with NiceGUI logged in the user for all browsers, including browsers in incognito mode. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.1.

  • Medium 5.6

    Beijing Yunfan Internet Technology Yunfan Learning Examination System JWT Token SysUserControl improper authentication

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  • High 8.7

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  • High 8.1

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  • High 7.6

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  • High 8.9

    Account Takeover Vulnerability in Social Account Linking in joelbutcher/socialstream

    Socialstream is a third-party package for Laravel Jetstream. It replaces the published authentication and profile scaffolding provided by Laravel Jetstream, with scaffolding that has support for Laravel Socialite. When linking a social account to an already a…

  • Low 3.3

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  • Critical 9.8

    Biagiotti Membership <= 1.0.2 - Authentication Bypass via biagiotti_membership_check_facebook_user

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  • High 8.7

    OPPO Store app include remote account token hijacking and sensitive information leakage

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  • High 7.1

    djoser Authentication Bypass

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  • Medium 6.9

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  • High 8.1

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  • Critical 9.8

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  • High 8.1

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  • Critical 9.3
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  • High 7.5

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    GLPI is a free asset and IT management software package. Starting in version 0.80 and prior to version 10.0.17, an administrator with access to the sent notifications contents can take control of an account with higher privileges. Version 10.0.17 contains a p…

  • Medium 5.3
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  • High 7.8

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  • Medium 5.3

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