CWE-693 — Protection Mechanism Failure
CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure
MITRE CWE weakness
| Kind | Weakness |
| Abstraction | Pillar |
| Status | Draft |
| Likelihood of exploit | — |
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
- Access Control: Bypass Protection Mechanism
Mitigations
(none listed)
References
- CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/693.html
- CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html