CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-28270

Weak Encoding for Password

Published: Apr 08, 2024 | Modified: Aug 01, 2024

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28270
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/261.html

An issue discovered in web-flash v3.0 allows attackers to reset passwords for arbitrary users via crafted POST request to /prod-api/user/resetPassword.

Weakness

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

Potential Mitigations

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/55.html

References

https://github.com/bcvgh/web-flash-Broken-Access-Control-vulnerability/

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CVE-2024-28270

Weak Encoding for Password

Weakness

Potential Mitigations

Related Attack Patterns

References