CWE-301 Reflection Attacks in Authentication Protocols
In a reflection attack the attacker makes your server answer its own challenge. See how shared keys and symmetric handshakes enable it and how to break the trick.
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In a reflection attack the attacker makes your server answer its own challenge. See how shared keys and symmetric handshakes enable it and how to break the trick.
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A revoked certificate is almost certainly in hostile hands. See why skipping revocation checks is so serious and how to make clients honor them.
Ignoring a certificate's validity dates means trusting credentials that were abandoned long ago. See how the bug appears and how to test and fix it.
A valid certificate for the wrong site is still the wrong site. Learn how missing hostname checks hit mobile and cloud code and how to verify them.
A certificate is only as good as the chain behind it. See how skipped intermediates, self-signed links and unchecked revocation break trust, and how to fix them.
Turning off or botching TLS certificate checks lets anyone in the network path pose as your server. See the common code patterns, real CVEs and the fixes.
If a valid login message can be recorded and sent again, the attacker never needs the password. See how replay works and how sequence numbers and signing stop it.
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