Lack of protection against brute force attacks

Description

The system does not have appropriate protection mechanisms against automated attacks designed to guess credentials.

Impact

Obtain the passwords of the application users.

Recommendation

Implement a control to avoid this type of attacks and to ensure that access is not made by a robot. E.g. Captcha, failed attempts blockout, etc.

Threat

Anonymous attacker from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: L
• Privileges required: N
• User interaction: N
• Scope: U
• Confidentiality: L
• Integrity: N
• Availability: N

Temporal

• Exploit code madurity: X
• Remediation level: X
• Report confidence: X

Result

• Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:X/RL:X/RC:X
• Score:
  • Base: 5.3
  • Temporal: 5.3
• Severity:
  • Base: Medium
  • Temporal: Medium

Requirements

• 237.Ascertain human interaction
• 327.Set a rate limit

Fixes

• Elixir
• Scala
• Python
• Ruby
• Go
• Dart
• Java
• C-Sharp
• TypeScript

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