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CWE-255

Credentials Management Errors
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2006-07-19 +00:00
2023-06-29 +00:00
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Name: Credentials Management Errors

Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of credentials.

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CWE-256: Plaintext Storage of a Password Base

CWE-257: Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format Base

CWE-260: Password in Configuration File Base

CWE-261: Weak Encoding for Password Base

CWE-262: Not Using Password Aging Base

CWE-263: Password Aging with Long Expiration Base

CWE-324: Use of a Key Past its Expiration Date Base

CWE-521: Weak Password Requirements Base

CWE-523: Unprotected Transport of Credentials Base

CWE-549: Missing Password Field Masking Base

CWE-620: Unverified Password Change Base

CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password Base

CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials Base

CWE-916: Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort Base

CWE-1392: Use of Default Credentials Base

CWE Informations

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Justification : This entry is a Category. Using categories for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves [REF-1287]. This CWE ID may have become widely-used because of NIST's usage in NVD from 2008 to 2016 (see CWE-635 view, updated to the CWE-1003 view in 2016).
Comment : Some weakness-oriented alternatives might be found under Improper Authentication (CWE-287) or keyword searches for credentials.

Submission

Name Organization Date Date release Version
CWE Community 2006-07-19 +00:00 2006-07-19 +00:00 Draft 3

Modifications

Name Organization Date Comment
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-09-08 +00:00 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2010-02-16 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-07-30 +00:00 updated Detection_Factors
CWE Content Team MITRE 2015-12-07 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors
CWE Content Team MITRE 2019-06-20 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-02-24 +00:00 updated Name, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2021-10-28 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2022-10-13 +00:00 updated References
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes

References

REF-1287

Supplemental Details - 2022 CWE Top 25
MITRE.
https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2022/2022_cwe_top25_supplemental.html#problematicMappingDetails