Lack of protection against brute force attacks - Credentials

Description

The application has no protection against automated attacks to guess valid promotional codes.

Impact

Increase the chances of getting valid credentials.

Recommendation

Implement a control to prevent this type of attack and to ensure that the function is not executed by a robot. E.g. captcha, blocking by delay in the number of failed attempts, among others.

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: O
• 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:O/RC:X
• Score:
  • Base: 5.3
  • Temporal: 5.1
• 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
• PHP
• TypeScript

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