CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
- Abstraction:Pillar
- Structure:Simple
- Status:Draft
- Release Date:2008-04-11
- Latest Modification Date:2025-04-03
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
Obsolete Content Security Policy (CSP) Header FoundInformational
CSP: style-src unsafe-hashesMedium
Content Security Policy (CSP) Report-Only Header FoundInformational
X-Content-Type-Options Header MissingLow
CSP: Header & MetaInformational
CSP: Meta Policy Invalid DirectiveMedium
Insufficient Site Isolation Against Spectre VulnerabilityLow
CSP: Malformed Policy (Non-ASCII)Medium
CSP: NoticesLow