CWE-645 (Overly Restrictive Account Lockout Mechanism) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.
The 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.
| Kind | Name | Class | Prevalence | OS / CPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language | — | Not Language-Specific | Undetermined | — |
These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.
| CVE | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-53982 | 2026-06-12 | 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 triggering account deletion… |
| CVE-2026-25907 | 2026-03-04 | Dell PowerScale OneFS, version 9.13.0.0, contains an overly restrictive account lockout mechanism vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerabi… |
| CVE-2025-5241 | 2025-07-11 | Overly Restrictive Account Lockout Mechanism vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation MELSEC iQ-F Series allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to lockout legitimate users for a certain peri… |
| CVE-2025-31947 | 2025-05-15 | 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 lock external LDAP a… |
| CVE-2024-37028 | 2024-08-14 | 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) are not evaluated. |
| CVE-2024-1722 | 2024-02-29 | 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-2023-4346 | 2023-08-29 | 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 gain access to the devi… |
| Date | Name | Version | Importance | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09-08 | CWE Content Team | 1.0 | — | updated Common_Consequences, Enabling_Factors_for_Exploitation, Relationships |
| 2008-10-14 | CWE Content Team | 1.0.1 | — | updated Description |
| 2011-06-01 | CWE Content Team | 1.13 | — | updated Common_Consequences |
| 2012-05-11 | CWE Content Team | 2.2 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2012-10-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.3 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2014-07-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.8 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2017-11-08 | CWE Content Team | 3.0 | — | updated Applicable_Platforms, Demonstrative_Examples, Description, Enabling_Factors_for_Exploitation, Modes_of_Introduction, Observed_Examples, Relationships |
| 2019-06-20 | CWE Content Team | 3.3 | — | updated Related_Attack_Patterns |
| 2020-02-24 | CWE Content Team | 4.0 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2023-01-31 | CWE Content Team | 4.10 | — | updated Description |
| 2023-04-27 | CWE Content Team | 4.11 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2023-06-29 | CWE Content Team | 4.12 | — | updated Mapping_Notes |
| 2025-12-11 | CWE Content Team | 4.19 | — | updated Weakness_Ordinalities |