COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATIONIncomplete

CWE-522

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

Abstraction

Class

Structure

Simple

Likelihood of Exploit

Medium

Understand the problem

What is the problem?

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

Root cause

How and when does the problem arise?

Lifecycle phase

Architecture and Design

COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.

Lifecycle phase

Implementation

Risk

What does successful exploitation lead to?

Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

Affected security scopes: Access Control

An attacker could gain access to user accounts and access sensitive data used by the user accounts.

Defence

How is it prevented and fixed?

Architecture and Design

Architecture and design approach

Detail
Use an appropriate security mechanism to protect the credentials.

Architecture and Design

Architecture and design approach

Detail
Make appropriate use of cryptography to protect the credentials.

Implementation

Implementation-phase defence

Detail
Use industry standards to protect the credentials (e.g. LDAP, keystore, etc.).

Verification

How is it detected?

Automated Static Analysis

High
Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)
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