Account Takeover
Description
By exploiting one or several application vulnerabilities it is possible to take control over a user account and perform action on his behalf
Impact
- Affect the traceability and non-repudiation of the user's actions.
- Deny the access of a legitimate user to its own account
- Obtain potentially confidential information from the user account
Recommendation
Define account recovery mechanisms, validating that the requester is the account owner.
Threat
Authenticated attacker from the Internet
Expected Remediation Time
⌚ 100 minutes.
Score
Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.
Base
- Attack vector: N
- Attack complexity: H
- Privileges required: L
- User interaction: N
- Scope: U
- Confidentiality: L
- Integrity: L
- Availability: L
Temporal
- Exploit code maturity: H
- Remediation level: U
- Report confidence: C
Result
- Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:H/RL:U/RC:C
- Score:
- Base: 5.0
- Temporal: 5.0
- 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: H
- Attack Requirements: N
- Privileges required: L
- User interaction: N
- Confidentiality (VC): L
- Integrity (VI): L
- Availability (VA): L
- Confidentiality (SC): N
- Integrity (SI): N
- Availability (SA): N
Threat 4.0
- Exploit maturity: A
Result 4.0
- Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A
- Score:
- CVSS-BT: 2.3
- Severity:
- CVSS-BT: Low
Requirements
Fixes
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