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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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