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Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

CVE-2021-27188

High
7.5/10

Summary

The Sovremennye Delovye Tekhnologii FX Aggregator terminal client 1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (access suspended for five hours) by making five invalid login attempts to a victim's account.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

The software does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within in a short time frame, making it more susceptible to brute force attacks.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published