CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password, page 8
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The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.
What the weakness is: CWE-640 at MITRE
Related attack patterns (CAPEC): 1
- CAPEC-50 Password Recovery Exploitation Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
The attack patterns MITRE's CAPEC relates to CWE-640, as MITRE names them. Credits.
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Explain CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password and how to prevent and detect it in code. Use https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/640.html and https://cve.bz/cve/cwe/640?via=ask-ai-copy for recent CVEs with this weakness. Cite the sources.Opens a third-party assistant; its answer is its own, not cve.bz's. The prompt holds only this weakness's id and public links.
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