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Improper Authentication

CVE-2011-2733

High
7.5/10

Summary

EMC RSA Adaptive Authentication On-Premise (AAOP) 6.0.2.1 SP1 Patch 2, SP1 Patch 3, SP2, SP2 Patch 1, and SP3 does not prevent reuse of authentication information during a session, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via vectors related to knowledge of the originally used authentication information and unspecified other session information.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • PARTIAL
  • COMPLETE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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  • Published