HTTP Basic Authentication Enabled
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01/01/1997
07/25/2018
02/26/2010
06/20/2013
Description
The HTTP Basic Authentication scheme is not considered to be a secure method of user authentication (unless used in conjunction with some external secure system such as TLS/SSL), as the user name and password are passed over the network as cleartext.
Solution(s)
- use-http-basic-auth-over-tls
- use-http-digest-auth
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