Authentication mechanism absence or evasion - Azure
Description
The system has flaws over authentication mechanisms or had been configured with one that can be bypassed.
Impact
- Allow organizations to be vulnerable to stealthy brute-force attacks.
- Allow fraudulent attempts on access users accounts.
Recommendation
- Force users to register multiple authentication methods.
- Enable Azure Fraud alert to empower users to proactively report attempts of someone trying to use their account.
- Set account lockout thresholds notifications.
Threat
Anonymous attacker with credentials access from the Internet.
Expected Remediation Time
⌚ 60 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: P
- Remediation level: O
- Report confidence: C
Result
- Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
- Score:
- Base: 5.3
- Temporal: 4.8
- Severity:
- Base: Medium
- Temporal: Medium
Score 4.0
Default score using CVSS 4.0 . It may change depending on the context of the src.
Base 4.0
- Attack vector: N
- Attack complexity: L
- Attack Requirements: N
- Privileges required: N
- User interaction: N
- Confidentiality (VC): L
- Integrity (VI): N
- Availability (VA): N
- Confidentiality (SC): N
- Integrity (SI): N
- Availability (SA): N
Threat 4.0
- Exploit madurity: P
Result 4.0
- Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- Score:
- CVSS-BT: 5.5
- Severity:
- CVSS-BT: Medium
Requirements
- 227.Display access notification
- 228.Authenticate using standard protocols
- 229.Request access credentials
- 231.Implement a biometric verification component
- 235.Define credential interface
- 264.Request authentication
- 323.Exclude unverifiable files
Fixes
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