Weakness (CWE)
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.
How to prevent it (6 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Make sure that all input supplied by the user to the password recovery mechanism is thoroughly filtered and validated.
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Architecture and Design
Do not use standard weak security questions and use several security questions.
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Architecture and Design
Make sure that there is throttling on the number of incorrect answers to a security question. Disable the password recovery functionality after a certain (small) number of incorrect guesses.
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Architecture and Design
Require that the user properly answers the security question prior to resetting their password and sending the new password to the e-mail address of record.
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Architecture and Design
Never allow the user to control what e-mail address the new password will be sent to in the password recovery mechanism.
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Architecture and Design
Assign a new temporary password rather than revealing the original password.
Source: MITRE CWE-640
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High 8.1
ASP.NET Core Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper authentication in ASP.NET Core allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
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High 7.5
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High 7.3
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High 8.1
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High 8.3
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High 8.1
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High 8.1
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High 7.3
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High 8.3
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High 8.7
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High 7.1
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High 7.4
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High 7.4
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High 8.1
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High 7.4
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High 8.3
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High 8.8
Sylius before 1.12.25, 1.13.17, 1.14.20, 2.1.16, and 2.2.9 Admin Password Reset Poisoning via Host Header
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High 8.3CVE-2026-93453 Public exploit
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High 8.8
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High 7.3
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High 7.5
Improper Authentication in Ankaref's LIBRID/LIBREF
Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in Ankaref Innovation and Technology Inc. LIBRID/LIBREF allows Password Recovery Exploitation. This issue affects LIBRID/LIBREF: from 2.01.0.2183 before 18.9.26.2319.
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High 7.5
Kimai before 2.58.0 Authentication Bypass via Password Reset Link
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High 8.1
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High 8.9
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High 7.6
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High 7.1
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High 7.5
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High 8.0
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High 8.0
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High 8.0
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High 7.3
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High 7.3
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High 8.8
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High 8.1
SureCart <= 4.2.3 - Unauthenticated Linked WordPress Account Takeover via Forged customer.updated Webhook
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High 8.8
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High 8.1
Weak Password Recovery Mechanism in Portal for ArcGIS
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High 7.7
FOSSBilling: Client password reset token reuse allows persistent account takeover
FOSSBilling is a free, open-source billing and client management system. In versions 0.5.6 through 0.7.2, when a `ClientPasswordReset` record already exists for a client (from a previous unexpired reset request), subsequent calls to the `reset_password` guest…
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High 8.0
Vulnerability in the Oracle iSupplier Portal product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Home Page). Supported versi…
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High 8.1
Apostrophe has a Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password and Improper Input Validation
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High 7.3
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