Weakness · High
CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
What it is
This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.
- Severity (our rating)
- High
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Introduced during
- Architecture and Design, Implementation
- Exploited in the wild
- 5 known exploited CVEs
What an attacker can do
- Bypass Protection Mechanism (Access Control)
- Gain Privileges or Assume Identity (Access Control)
How to prevent it
MITRE lists no specific mitigation for this weakness. Treat it like its parent weaknesses below: validate input, keep the design simple and review the code where it could appear.
Exploited in the wild: 5 CVEs
Vulnerabilities caused by CWE-290 that attackers have used, from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, newest first.
- CVE-2023-50224TP-Link TL-WR841N Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Vulnerability · added September 3, 2025
- CVE-2024-54085AMI MegaRAC SPx Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Vulnerability · added June 25, 2025
- CVE-2024-4358Progress Telerik Report Server Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Vulnerability · added June 13, 2024
- CVE-2022-24112Apache APISIX Authentication Bypass Vulnerability · added August 25, 2022
- CVE-2022-23131Zabbix Frontend Authentication Bypass Vulnerability · added February 22, 2022
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