CWE-645 Overly Restrictive Account Lockout Mechanism
baseThe product contains an account lockout protection mechanism, but the mechanism is too restrictive and can be triggered too easily, which allows attackers to deny service to legitimate users by causing their accounts to be locked out.
01
parent weaknesses
Broader classes this is a kind of.
02
vulnerabilities (11)
Known CVEs related to this entry.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-4346US | high7.5OT critical | KEV | ||
KNX devices that use KNX Connection Authorization and support Option 1 are, depending on the implementation, vulnerable to being locked and users being unable to reset them to gai… | ||||
| CVE-2023-24051US | critical9.8OT elevated | — | ||
A client side rate limit issue discovered in Connectize AC21000 G6 641.139.1.1256 allows attackers to gain escalated privileges via brute force style attacks. | ||||
| CVE-2026-105866US | high7.5 | — | ||
Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In versions before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, an unauthenticated attacker who knows an… | ||||
| CVE-2026-25907US | high7.5 | — | ||
Dell PowerScale OneFS, version 9.13.0.0, contains an overly restrictive account lockout mechanism vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially ex… | ||||
| CVE-2021-20598US | medium5.3 | — | ||
Overly Restrictive Account Lockout Mechanism vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-R series CPU modules (R08/16/32/120SFCPU all versions, R08/16/32/120PSFCPU all versions)… | ||||
| CVE-2025-31947US | medium5.3 | — | ||
Mattermost versions 10.6.x <= 10.6.1, 10.5.x <= 10.5.2, 10.4.x <= 10.4.4, 9.11.x <= 9.11.11 fail to lockout LDAP users following repeated login failures, which allows attackers to… | ||||
| CVE-2024-37028US | medium5.3 | — | ||
BIG-IP Next Central Manager may allow an attacker to lock out an account that has never been logged in. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS)… | ||||
| CVE-2024-1722US | medium5.3 | — | ||
A flaw was found in Keycloak. In certain conditions, this issue may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to block other accounts from logging in. | ||||
| CVE-2026-35161US | — | — | ||
Dell PowerScale InsightIQ, versions 5.2.0 through 6.3.0, contains an Overly Restrictive Account Lockout Mechanism vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access coul… | ||||
| CVE-2026-53982US | — | — | ||
Cap-go Console < 12.28.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in its account deletion flow that allows an attacker to block authentication and onboarding functions by trigger… | ||||
| CVE-2025-5241US | — | — | ||
Overly Restrictive Account Lockout Mechanism vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation MELSEC iQ-F Series allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to lockout legitimate user… | ||||
03
attack patterns (1)
CAPEC attack patterns that exploit this.
04
source
Where this definition is published.
MITREUS
scry
Weaknesses like this turn up in real, exploitable exposures. See what is exposed on your perimeter with a free passive scan.
Free scan