CWE-408 — Incorrect Behavior Order: Early Amplification
CWE-408: Incorrect Behavior Order: Early Amplification
MITRE CWE weakness
| Kind | Weakness |
| Abstraction | Base |
| Status | Draft |
| Likelihood of exploit | — |
Description
The product allows an entity to perform a legitimate but expensive operation before authentication or authorization has taken place.
Common consequences
- Availability: DoS: Amplification, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU), DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Mitigations
(none listed)
References
- CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/408.html
- CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html