QID 570061

QID 570061: Basic Auth Is Not Preferred Authentication

Authentication configuration is an important part of API design. Basic authentication is not considered a secure authentication mechanism. Based on analysis of the swagger file it is determined that basic authentication is the security scheme configured on the API.

API with basic authentication is not compliance to swagger specification and will result in an error.

CVSS V3 rated as Low - 0 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Low - 0 severity.

Solution

Security scheme should be modified to use a more secure authentication method, such as OAuth 2.0. Current security definition might look something like :

securityDefinitions: basicAuth: type: basic paths: /something: get: # To apply Basic auth to an individual operation: security: - basicAuth: [] responses: 200: description: OK (successfully authenticated)

Change the above to oauth 2.0:
securitySchemes: OAuth2: type: oauth2 flows:

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