CWE•Base•Incomplete•4 recent CVEs
CWE-523Unprotected Transport of Credentials
Description
Login pages do not use adequate measures to protect the user name and password while they are in transit from the client to the server.
Common consequences
- Access Control→Gain Privileges or Assume Identity
Potential mitigations
- Operation,System ConfigurationEnforce SSL use for the login page or any page used to transmit user credentials or other sensitive information. Even if the entire site does not use SSL, it MUST use SSL for login. Additionally, to help prevent phishing attacks, make sure that SSL serves the login page. SSL allows the user to verify the identity of the server to which they are connecting. If the SSL serves login page, the user ca