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
270 results · Feed
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Critical 10.0
Information Disclosure in Birebirsoft's Sufirmam
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Critical 9.4
Improper Access Control in Birebirsoft's Sufirmam
Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts, Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in Birebirsoft Software and Technology Solutions Sufirmam allows Brute Force, Password Recovery Exploitation. This issue affects S…
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Medium 5.3
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Critical 9.8
Beehive Forum - Account Takeover
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Critical 10.0CVE-2025-63314 Public exploit
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Low 3.7
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Medium 4.3CVE-2025-14783 Public exploit
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High 7.5
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High 7.1
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Medium 5.3
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Critical 9.3
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High 7.5
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High 8.8
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High 8.1
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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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High 7.0
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Medium 6.4
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Critical 9.8
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Critical 9.8
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High 8.8
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Critical 9.8
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High 8.1
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Medium 5.3
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Critical 9.8
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