CAPEC-50StandardDraft
Password Recovery Exploitation
An attacker may take advantage of the application feature to help users recover their forgotten passwords in order to gain access into the system with the same privileges as the original user. Generally password recovery schemes tend to be weak and insecure.
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CWE-522
The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.
CWE-640
The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.
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