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CWE-263: Password Aging with Long Expiration

Overview

CWE-263 (Password Aging with Long Expiration) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product supports password aging, but the expiration period is too long.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language — Not Language-Specific Undetermined —

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2023-1976 2023-04-11 Password Aging with Long Expiration in GitHub repository answerdev/answer prior to 1.0.6.

Previous names

  • Allowing Unchecked Password Aging (2008-04-11)

Content submission

Name
CLASP
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 — updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2011-03-29 CWE Content Team 1.12 — updated Description, Other_Notes, Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 — updated Common_Consequences
2011-06-27 CWE Content Team 2.0 — updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 — updated References, Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 — updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 — updated Applicable_Platforms, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 — updated Demonstrative_Examples, References
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 — updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2022-10-13 CWE Content Team 4.9 — updated Description, Potential_Mitigations, References, Relationships
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 — updated References, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 — updated Mapping_Notes
2025-09-09 CWE Content Team 4.18 — updated Maintenance_Notes, Mapping_Notes, Potential_Mitigations, References
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 — updated Weakness_Ordinalities

Contributions

Type Name Date Comment
Feedback Kurt Seifried, Chris Eng, G. Ann Campbell, Larry Shields, Jeffrey Walton, Jason Dryhurst-Smith, and other members of the CWE Community 2021-12-03 Gave feedback on how to update CWE-262 and CWE-263 due to changing password management practices
Feedback Camille Gouttebroze 2025-03-17 suggested removal of password expiration as an acceptable mitigation in CWE-521 and provided references
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