OWASP Top Ten 2007 Category A7 - Broken Authentication and Session Management
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
Summary
Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.
Weaknesses in this category are related to the A7 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2007.
Weaknesses
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.
Simple authentication protocols are subject to reflection attacks if a malicious user can use the target machine to impersonate a trusted user.
Concepts
Deprecated or Obsolete
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