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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Medium 5.3
D-Link DI-7003GV2 webgl.asp sub_41F4F0 unverified password change
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Medium 5.4
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Medium 4.3
YXJ2018 SpringBoot-Vue-OnlineExam studentPWD unverified password change
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Medium 6.5
Improper Authentication in Tapandsign Technologies Tap and Sign App
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.6
IBM Security SOAR weak password recovery mechanism
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Medium 5.3
TDuckCloud TDuckPro password recovery
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Medium 6.4
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Medium 6.3
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 5.3
ZITADEL's password reset does not respect the "Ignoring unknown usernames" setting
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Medium 4.3
Xinhu RockOA Password password recovery
A vulnerability was found in Xinhu RockOA 1.1/2.3.2/15.X3amdi and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file api.php?m=reimplat&a=index of the component Password Handler. The manipulation leads to weak password…
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Medium 6.3
OpenRapid RapidCMS run-movepass.php password recovery
A vulnerability was found in OpenRapid RapidCMS 1.3.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file admin/run-movepass.php. The manipulation of the argument password/password2 leads to weak password recovery. The attack ma…
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Medium 6.5
ningzichun Student Management System Password Reset resetPassword.php password recovery
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 6.4
Multiple valid tokens for password reset in Shopware
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Medium 5.3
Information exposure in xwiki-platform
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In affected versions it's possible to guess if a user has an account on the wiki by using the "Forgot your password" form, even if the wiki is closed to g…
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Medium 6.8
Umbraco Password Reset URL Poison
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Medium 5.3
Re-use of email tokens in Discourse
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Medium 5.4
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Medium 5.1
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Medium 5.3
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