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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Low 3.7
macrozheng mall mall-portal getAuthCode password recovery
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Low 3.7
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Low 3.7
funadmin Member.php repass password recovery
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Low 2.7
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Low 3.7
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Low 2.7
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Low 3.1
PHPGurukul Online Library Management System change-password.php password recovery
A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Online Library Management System 3.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /change-password.php. The manipulation of the argument email/phone number…
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Low 3.7
QileCMS Verification Code Forget.php sendEmail password recovery
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in QileCMS up to 1.1.3. This vulnerability affects the function sendEmail of the file /qilecms/user/controller/Forget.php of the component Verification Code Handler. The manipulation leads to weak password r…
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Low 3.7
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Low 3.7
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Low 3.7
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Low 3.7
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Low 2.6
gitter-badger ezpublish-modern-legacy forgotpassword.php password recovery
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Low 3.7
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