AUTHENTICATION (AT7)

Cecilia can use brute force and dictionary attacks against one or many accounts without limit, or these attacks are simplified due to insufficient complexity, length, expiration and re-use requirements for passwords

AUTHENTICATION
7

Cecilia can use brute force and dictionary attacks against one or many accounts without limit, or these attacks are simplified due to insufficient complexity, length, expiration and re-use requirements for passwords

OWASP SCP

33,38,39,41,50,53

OWASP ASVS

2.1.2,2.1.7,2.1.10,2.2.1

OWASP AppSensor

AE2,AE3

CAPEC

-

SAFECODE

27

How to play?

Attacks should be prevented from being able to obtain valid account credentials by using the application in an unintended manner. This includes credential cracking (identifying valid login credentials by trying different values for usernames and/or passwords) and credential stuffing (mass log in attempts used to verify the validity of stolen username/password pairs).

NB: This card relates to passwords. See AT 4 for the similar user name attacks.

Mappings

OWASP ASVS (4.0): 2.1.2 ,2.1.7 ,2.1.10 ,2.2.1

Capec: 2 ,16

OWASP SCP: 33,38,39,41,50,53

OWASP Appsensor: AE2,AE3

Safecode: 27

ASVS (4.0) Cheatsheetseries Index

ASVS V2.1 - Password Security Requirements

ASVS V2.2 - General Authenticator Requirements

No suitable mappings were found.

Attacks

Password Guessing/Brute Force Attacks

Weak Authentication Protocols

Account Takeover (ATO) Attacks

Password Policy Exploitation

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