CWE-523: Unprotected Transport of Credentials

Base Incomplete Simple

CWE版本: 4.18

更新日期: 2025-09-09

弱点描述

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.

常见后果

影响范围: Access Control

技术影响: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

潜在缓解措施

阶段: Operation System Configuration

描述: Enforce SSL use for the login page or any page used to transmit user credentials or other sensitive information. Even if the entire site does not use SSL, it MUST use SSL for login. Additionally, to help prevent phishing attacks, make sure that SSL serves the login page. SSL allows the user to verify the identity of the server to which they are connecting. If the SSL serves login page, the user can be certain they are talking to the proper end system. A phishing attack would typically redirect a user to a site that does not have a valid trusted server certificate issued from an authorized supplier.

检测方法

方法: Automated Static Analysis

Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)

有效性: High

引入模式

阶段 说明
Architecture and Design OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase.

分类映射

分类名称 条目ID 条目名称 映射适配度
Software Fault Patterns SFP23 Exposed Data -
关键信息

CWE ID: CWE-523

抽象级别: Base

结构: Simple

状态: Incomplete

相关弱点
相关攻击模式
CAPEC-102