CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
CWE-693
- Abstraction:
- Pillar
- Structure:
- Simple
- Status:
- Draft
- Weakness Name
Protection Mechanism Failure
- Description
The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.
This weakness covers three distinct situations. A "missing" protection mechanism occurs when the application does not define any mechanism against a certain class of attack. An "insufficient" protection mechanism might provide some defenses - for example, against the most common attacks - but it does not protect against everything that is intended. Finally, an "ignored" mechanism occurs when a mechanism is available and in active use within the product, but the developer has not applied it in some code path.
- Common Consequences
Scope: Access Control
Impact: Bypass Protection Mechanism
- Related Alerts
- Release Date:
- 2008-04-11
- Latest Modification Date:
- 2023-06-29
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