Weak Encoding for Password

Obscuring a password with a trivial encoding does not protect the password.

Soyutlama

Base

Yapı

Simple

Sömürü İhtimali

Medium

Problemi anla

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Obscuring a password with a trivial encoding does not protect the password.

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Password management issues occur when a password is stored in plaintext in an application's properties or configuration file. A programmer can attempt to remedy the password management problem by obscuring the password with an encoding function, such as base 64 encoding, but this effort does not adequately protect the password.

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Architecture and Design

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

Risk

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Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

Etkilenen güvenlik alanları: Access Control

Savunma

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Tüm evreler

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Detay

Passwords should be encrypted with keys that are at least 128 bits in length for adequate security.

Doğrulama

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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.)