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CWE-523: Unprotected Transport of Credentials

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Login pages do not use adequate measures to protect the user name and password while they are in transit from the client to the server.

What the weakness is: CWE-523 at MITRE. OWASP Top 10: A04:2025 Cryptographic Failures

Related attack patterns (CAPEC): 1
  • CAPEC-102 Session Sidejacking Likelihood: High · Severity: High

The attack patterns MITRE's CAPEC relates to CWE-523, as MITRE names them. Credits.

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