CWE-5 — J2EE Misconfiguration: Data Transmission Without Encryption

provenance: imported · CWE: CWE-5

CWE-5: J2EE Misconfiguration: Data Transmission Without Encryption

MITRE CWE weakness


Kind	Weakness
Abstraction	Variant
Status	Draft
Likelihood of exploit	—

Description

Information sent over a network can be compromised while in transit. An attacker may be able to read or modify the contents if the data are sent in plaintext or are weakly encrypted.

Common consequences

Confidentiality: Read Application Data
Integrity: Modify Application Data

Mitigations

System Configuration — The product configuration should ensure that SSL or an encryption mechanism of equivalent strength and vetted reputation is used for all access-controlled pages.

References

CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/5.html
CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html

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