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password reset takeover

password-reset-takeover is a medium severity check in the web category, written in python. Its source is templates/web/auth-bypass/password-reset-takeover.py in cert-x-gen-templates.

Field Value
Id password-reset-takeover
Severity medium (the fallback: the file names no severity the engine recognises)
Language python
Category web
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To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info password-reset-takeover

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.