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Obtaining User Passwords on Transport

An attacker could attempt to eavesdrop the transmission of end-user credentials with the grant type 'password' between the client and server.

OAuth 2.0 Threat Model and Security Considerations (RFC6819, section 4.4.3.4)

Mitigations

This threat is considered fully mitigated if all the test cases from the following test set succeed.

• Set #1
• TokenEndpoint.HasValidCertificateTest
• TokenEndpoint.IsHttpsRequiredTest
• TokenEndpoint.IsModernTlsSupportedTest

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