CWE-523: Unprotected Transport of Credentials

Description

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.

Submission Date :

July 19, 2006, midnight

Modification Date :

2023-06-29 00:00:00+00:00

Organization :

MITRE

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