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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

⌚ 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 madurity: 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

Requirements

Fixes

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