General Information

Weak Password Recovery Question Selection

Variants:
Direct 

Vector Type:
Vulnerability

Relevance:
Generic

Layer:
Application-Level

Platforms:
Any

Target Type:
Application

Affected Mechanisms:
Registration, Password Recovery

Invented In:
01/01/1999

Added In:
23/12/2014


Vector Operation Method:
The application enables the user to select weak recovery questions that have a limited set of answers which is easily guessable. A typical example is the - what is your favorite color - question, which only has a limited set of answers and will therefore cause the user to select a trivial answer. Due to the limited choice of answers, attackers could abuse this issue to guess the answers with only a handful of attempts, without prompting any process lock or anomaly detection mechanisms.


Direct Variant:

Weak Password Recovery Question Selection

Variant Title:
Weak Password Recovery Question Selection

Typical Severity:
Medium

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